How to fit 1 hour 57 min. on 1 DVD

[drilldoc]

The only way to fit more content on a single sided DVD is with VBR encoding with a high quality encoder. You can use a crappy encoder, but it will look like doo. I ripped Titanic to a single sided DVD and it fit without menus and mulitlanguage and such. It's over 3 hours long, so I suppose you could do it with a 2.5 hour movie even with menus. I use Cinemacraft SP but it's $2k. You could try TmpgEnc for $50, but good luck on getting a usable mpg file for Workshop and be prepared to wait a while for the final encode.

[Devil]

My experience is one should never burn at more than half the speed the media will allow. I've had a look at SL burning with a metallurgical microscope and the "pits" are more sharply defined at lower speeds. I don't yet have enough experience with DL.