Am I going to fry my computer?

I am in the process of burning a 1.05 GB file (approximately one-hour program) to DVD. I have ten of these to do and am on number four. The quality is good although the process is very slow. . . .taking about three+ hours.
What concerns me is that the computer is getting so hot. I don't want to fry the poor thing. I am using an iMac 1.8 GHz Power PC G5, OSX 10.4.11
BTW, these programs are perfectly legal to be burning.
Is this a bad thing to be doing to the computer? I'm burning two a day.
Thank you in advance for any help/thoughts about this.
Lee

hard to tell from remote..
DVD encoding is a process of high computation.. your Mac is really busy, calculating all the frames..
but, usually, using any app doesn't 'overwhelm' your iMac.. never heard of a 'fried' Mac, just due to using it..
for sure, there's a very small chance of somekind of hardware-failure... your iMac has a fan inside, which should take care of 'venting' the CPU .. some people do notice the low hummmmm from that and at somekind of grid, you should notice some warm air coming out of your Mac.. does your Mac 'breath'? the fan should run while being 'busy' .. or, e.g. people using the the big 'towers' from Apple usually place them on the carpets of the floor.. within months, the inside of the poor Mac looks like a Hoover , which for sure, doesn't allow a good cooling anymore.. or, I've seen someone placing her iMac into the bright sunlight (in front of her window), complaining, the fan is running without running any apps.. for sure, the Mac's case was hot as an oven..
but, if your iMac would get too hot, there're 'mechanisms' inside the machine, which will shut-down the computer, before getting damaged..

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