DVD-R is soooooo slow

I'm attempting to burn DVDs using Toast 7 Titanium and my built in Matshita DVD-R UJ835-F. It's been taking over 4 hours to burn one DVD with about 2 hours of video on it. I've finally narrowed it down to the following problem.
I have Toast set at 16x DVD recording but when I put in the blank DVD the settings change to 'Best' and then I'm only left with to other options, 1x DVD and 2x DVD. The DVD's I am using are genuine Sony DVD-R's which quite clearly say they support 16 x recording mode.
Any clues would be gratefully received.
Thanks

er, I don't have a Powerbook
Sorry… I got all confused as to where I was.
The majority of the time seems to be spent 'encoding'. Is that not part of the burning process? Apologies for the ignorance if that's the case.
What Toast 6 does when you do not do a straight data burn is to convert the original data into the data type of which you are burning. So, if you are burning an AVI file and want it to be burnt as a DVD-ROM then Toast must first encode the AVI file to a DVD style VIDEO_TS directory, which includes video encoding. This does take time. I'm not sure exactly the process order is for Toast 7 but it too much reencode your video data. This is more than likely the source of your burning slowdowns.
To accurately check the burn speed of your drive try burning a DVD that is pre-encoded in the right format. For instance, instead of burning the AVI file directly, save it to a disc image first, then, burn the created disc image.

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