I'm using windows DVD maker to burn a DVD so it can be played on my DVD player. However, its taking a very long time in the encoding phase (over an hour). Is there any way to speed it up?
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Best Answer
Click on
Options(bottom-right corner for me) and make sureDVD burner speedis set tofastest.Since the DVD encoding process runs at low priority, other running applications can slow it down by hogging CPU time. Switching it to high priority in task manager may give a big increase in speed (for me it ran about 10x faster).
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