need some help please...

[surewood]

im kinda new to this stuff so bare with me...

alright...i have a laptop with a dvd player in it but i dont like watching dvd's on it because the screen isnt all that big. I was thinking about getting an external cd burner and a program that will allow you to burn dvd's without the dvd burner...my question is, is there a way to get these burned dvd's to play on ps2? Like is there some program that i can get that wll let me burn it as a dvd and not vcd? or is there somthing i can get to let me play vcd on ps2?

my other question is, my brothers friend has a dvd burner and he burned Man on the Moon for me, he cut out all the extra crap and burned just the movie but it still wouldnt fit on 1 disc...what gives? Its annoying as hell to have a movie stop like that in the middle of it so you can put disc 2 in to finish it...if there is a way to do this then I might spend the extra money and get an external dvd burner...

any kind of help would be awesome