Long DVD Burning Time

[Geminiboi683]

Is it my computer or Roxios software that takes over 3 hours to burn about 1.5 hrs. of video to a DVD??? It takes almost 3 hours just to encode it, then maybe a half hour or so for the actual burning. Why is it doing this? Is that actually normal? And why can't I contact Roxio via the net?

[gi7omy]

The encoding does take a very long time - it's extremely CPU intensive unfortunately

 

Commercial rendering is done on 'computer farms' (a LOT of computers, multi-cores and loads of RAM)

 

3 hours is round about normal for a home PC - it may be slightly faster with a dual core CPU

 

1/2 hour for the burn - it depends on the speed of your burner and also the rating on the media (all DVDs have a small track telling the drive what their rated speed is and it will not go above that