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I have a lot of movie files (avi, mpeg, etc) that I want to burn to a dvd so I can watch them on TV. When I go to burn a DVD through toast it takes forever to encode it i guess. The same problem with iMovie and iDVD. Is there some way to make this process faster, or is there something I'm doing wrong.

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encoding takes a long time.

what are the specs of your mac?
 
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I have the same problem with my specs using toast. It takes FOREVER.
 
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yeah, we're all similar then.

it takes me hours sometimes.
 
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Yep, and the fan spins the whole time lol
 
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