a friend copied man on fire, not sure of the burner, but used dvd clonerII. put it on a 4.7 dvd+r, no surround sound. the movie is 147 min, so had to be compressed. Is it possible to burn a dvd and keep all the quality, and dts or 5.1, without spending $10 on DL discs?
Simply...no. think about it. It's like saying I want a 800 MB Audio-CD to be compressed to roughly 5 MB per song, without a loss in quality. It's just not possible. Any form of compression results in the loss of data. The compression isn't all that bad, it's hardly noticable, and you save mucho dinero on DL DVDs.
Read this thread to learn how to split a movie into 2 dvd-r's. http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_jump.cfm/122418/648628-94851