2 hour DVD with 2 different chapters?

I've never tried this, but I'm wondering if I can create with iDVD 5 a 2 hour DVD with two different movies in it? Essentially, I shot two dance shows and in order to save money, I'm hoping to fuse the two into one DVD whereby viewers can select Show A or Show B and get what will probably be 15 chapters for each show.
The longest iDVD DVD that I've created so far was about 90 minutes, and the quality appeared okay, but I'm wondering what a slightly over 2 hour video might look like.
I have Pogue's Missing Manual for iMovie and iDVD and I'll research the question there, but I'm wanting to get feedback from those who have tried it.
Any suggestions for how to get this project done if it's indeed possible to do so?
Thanks

Yeah, I need to get Studio Pro eventually. It would be nice to have more custom made wedding DVDs rather than the standard ones I've been using with iDVD.
I was just reviewing Pogue's book on another matter and realized that I can archive a project as a disk image rather than archiving the entire project which creates a huge file. Without thinking, I always thought the disk image was still referencing the source files. (silly me). Now I can create more space in my external drives and still make copies of DVDs when my clients call me months later wanting another copy. Wow, learn something new everyday.

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