Burning 130 min onto DVD

Hello, I have a movie that I made that is 130 minutes. I am unable to burn this using i dvd unless i choose a lower quality. Does anyone have other options that would keep the picture quality integrity.
I thought that I might have to break the movie into two sections and burn two dvds, or edit 10 minutes out to fit it onto one dvd. Any ideas. Thank you.

It would be very nice if iDVD could use compressed audio like AC3 (or M1A) instead of using uncompressed PCM. In long DVDs the PCM audio starves video the bandwidth it really needs. For example:
With 120 minutes the 1536 kb/s PCM audio takes a whopping 1.3 GB of the DVD and leaves only an average of about 3452 kb/s for the video.
A good quality compressed 384 kb/s AC3 audio would take only 0.3 GB/120 minutes leaving about 4604 kb/s for the video (192 kb/s AC3 audio would leave about 4796 kb/s for the video -- not a very big difference compared to 384 kb/s audio).
So even with good quality compressed audio, there would be considerably more bandwidth available for the video with long DVDs.
I don't know why iDVD uses bloated PCM. Maybe it is less demanding to simply use noncompressed audio (iDVD 5 seems to sometimes have trouble even with that Or maybe there are licensing issues.
BTW, the following handy formula calculates the average video bitrate to use to fill up a DVD disc based on the selected audio bitrate:
Video Rate [in bps] = (598566666 / Time [in minutes]) - Audio Rate [in bps]
For example:
(598566666 / 120 [in minutes]) - 1536000 [in bps] = 3452055 b/s = 3452 kb/s

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