Can you burn a video DVD with mpeg1?

I have around 1500 small mpeg1 clips. They have the extension .mpg. I can burn about 20 or so of these files to cd as a data cd. These data cds will play fine on my APEX DVD player. As most know a cd holds 700MB of info. I tried to burn a data DVD using these same mpg files and they play but only on the computer. When I try to play them on the DVD they don't work. These files work fine as a data cd why don't they work with a data DVD? Is there a way to burn these files to DVD and still work on my APEX DVD player? If there is, please give me detailed instructions on how to do it. I am kind of new to this. As I said before I have around 1500 of these files I want on DVD. Since I can get 20 or so on CD Im figuring I should be able to get alot more on DVD.. PLEASE HELP!!!! thanks you guys are awesome.

DVDlab 

Scenarist will accept full d1 and half d1 files. So you're right that also other resolutions can be imported. As long as your files are dvd compliant (still talking mpeg2 though)

now what are "these" files of?? don't worry, you don't have to tell me, i know;)

they are karaoke videos. ripped from cdg's.

Your quarter d1 mpeg1 video clips can be accepted by an authoring program for DVD-video. The problem, if any, is at your audio. It must be upsampled to 48khz if it is at 44.1 now. After this u can easily author them. Since they r mpg allready, they contain mpeg audio. Search the svcd2dvdmpeg program by chrissyboy. It can automate the conversion of the audio sample rate for you. Better still u can do it yourself using besweet. Load them in a batch list and have a coffee while u wait.

I found a program 

It can be done and very easily. It can be done with the newest Nero Vision. I had the older version and it didnt work, but with the newest update it works great. Not only can you put the mpeg1 videos on but if you put too many it automatically decreases the quality to fit onto a single DVD. Check it out. Thanks everyone for the help.

mpeg1 is one of the 2 codecs accepted in the video-dvd standard, provided you use one of the dvd resolutions and a bitrate up to 1800 kb/s. I made a dvd out of 7 vcds using tmpg dvdauthor demo (that can also use riff-signed mpegs) and let it resample the audio part at 48 khz. Very good results.