Toasting DVDs

27 Jan 2011 13:21:27

Eric Jervis

How long should it take to burn a 4GB DVD?
It's currently taking me about 6 hours but I've got the distinct impression that it used to be quicker. There's oodles of hard drive space but a mere 4GBs of memory. (PowerPC G5)

Re: Toasting DVDs

27 Jan 2011 14:59:25

Trevor Hewson

I've never used Toast but I wonder, are you just writing files to the DVD or is there extra processing involved? As an extreme example, if you burn a DVD from iDVD, it can spend several hours 'rendering assets' before the actual burn process even starts. Burning a second one from a disc image by contrast takes under an hour.

Re: Toasting DVDs

29 Jan 2011 14:10:34

Eric Jervis

They're films, Trevor, and most of the time is spent in 'encoding' the originals; which probably means converting the file into a different format. I usually burn two discs and the second one takes no time at all.