Hi folks.

I recently transferred a bunch of Super 8 sound home movies to video, using
wall projection and firewire from a Sony video camera. The final results
(after many trials and experiments) seem excellent to my eye. I'm keen to
copy the films onto DVDs and spread them around various family households
for viewing and safe keeping. However, whenever I try to save the
uncompressed AVI files to DVD they end up much smaller than the original in
file size (and therefore probably lower resolution) and I get an error about
an unknown codec when I attempt to playback.

I did all my editing and flicker removal etc in VirtualDub and always saved
as 'uncompressed AVI'. Each 3 minute film is therefore about 5.4GB in size.
I was thinking of getting a dual layer Blu-ray drive so I could save a
number of films to each DVD. But unless I can find a way to save the files
to disc uncompressed and in a readable format I might as well save my money.
What I really want the system to do is save a byte-for-byte copy of the
original without any mangling along the way. Is this possible - if so how -
and are there any free-ish programs that will achieve this?

Thanks,
-Neil F.