Compressor handled Dolby Digital fine but hangs on H.264

Hey folks
Hopefully this is a newbie question..... I search the forums and couldn't find this answer.....
I have a HDV movie that has been put into final cut pro.... I may have 1 or 2 holes in my audio which is fine I don't mind the silence....
I sent the project to Compressor and chose HDV 90 minutes since it is about 60+ minutes of footage......
Compressor handles the Dolby Digital Profession 2.0 find (in about 10 minutes) but then when it goes to H.264 6.75Mbps it litteraly takes for ever....After 11 hours it was only 40% done....
Is this right or could I have done something wrong in the editing for it to fail?
-David

I've had luck with H.264/AAC from Quicktime Player 7 and Adobe Media Encoder. I've never been able to export to Android out of Compressor. The AAC flavours Compressor offers aren't to Android's taste.
Here's the spec sheet on what is/isn't accepted.
http://developer.android.com/guide/appendix/media-formats.html
Also, for the record, Google supports and actively contributes to HTML5. The hang up is the video tag in HTML 5 does not specify a codec. Google is dropping support for H.264 video in Chrome when using the video tag because H.264 is proprietary, not open. This is the same reason H.264 video support has never been in Firefox. H.264 will be supported in Chrome through Flash, just as WebM will be supported almost everywhere else via Flash.
Message was edited by: soundman1024 - Changed from "AAC" to "H.264/AAC" in 1st sentence

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