3 hours of footage onto 1 DVD?

Hi everyone,
We have a big project coming up: 3 hours (not including the menu.) How can we compress this using compressor so it all fits onto 1 DVD, either single or dual layer?
I've read in other posts that if you use AC3 audio instead of AIFF, that will help save room... but really i'd like to know more about the setting to use in Compressor/DVDSP in order to pull this off.
Thanks in advance

Do the math.
Double that maximum bit rate for twice the size of DVD5.
It will look better.
But you also might consider editing some of the footage.

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