dvd software burnt off normal cd burner

I was wondering if anyone out there could help me with a problem I’m having. I had heard you can install some sort of software to burn dvds with a regular cd burner. I want to burn a few episodes of shows I’ve downloaded but I’ve yet to find a program that will burn mpeg files that large (430725 kb) to a cd-r disk and have it play on a regular dvd player. Does anyone know of a program that would burn AVI and MPEG with a normal cd-r burner and play them on a dvd player?