2 DVDs -> 1 DVD-R

[sukh]

I have Goodfellas on a double sided single layer DVD (4gigs on either side). I got the DVD ages ago and would like to compress/encode/burn the DVD to 1 DVD-R so i don't have to get up and change the DVD over.

Can anyone suggest how i would be able to go about doing this? (assuming that i can compress it to below 4.5gigs)

(Bare in mind i'm new at this)

Thanks

[resnullius]

well you'd have to go thru the ripping process(look in the how to section) and recompress it using a lower bitrate(with tmpgenc or cce and maybe convert the audio to ac3(dolby)(using a dvd authoring software such as DVDit PE)