Originally Posted by Stream Recorder

Sorry, I didn't really get why were you playing them and then burning to a CD.

That was how i could turn the .smi into .rm as the saved playing file becomes .rm.
The .rm i can convert to mpeg2.

Usually a 4.7 Gb DVD-Video Disc has up to 2 hours of MPEG-2 video. But I've seen more than 4 hours of video on such a disc, so it really needs some testing to be done to get the quality you need.