How long to encode audio

I am new to mac, this is my 3rd attempt to burn my first movie. Have read the articles about waiting overnight and are doing this as a disk image... but it has been encoding audio for more than 18 hours and the length of time since starting the process is over 24 hours. Is this normal or do I have an issue?
macosX Mac OS X (10.4.7) iDVD6

That seems BAD... The longest I've had to wait is 30 minuts; but it varies by project type. My just completed slideshow project encoded audio many times at certain stages of the rendering/encoding process.
I've seen some people have to wait many hours to get through audio encoding. Don't know what to tell you beyond that.

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iDVD is probably not 'hanging'. Disregard any messages that iDVD is not responding. It is. Do not force quit.
Encoding audio is the slowest part of rendering, and can take many hours. Great patience, even an intermittent alternative hobby, is called for.
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I've spent most of this week trying to burn my iMovie film to DVD, and like many people on this forum, and other areas of the internet, I'm unable to do so with iDVD 'locking up' at the encoding audio stage.
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I'm sitting here having now waited 24 hours for it to finish - but it hasnt.
I know its doing something, as I've opened the package contents of the iDVD file and I can see 'tempmovie.mov' very slowly increase in size.
But I've burned many films before (in previous ilife verions), and to wait for such a long period is not right.
My last major project involved the burning of an AVI type file of 90 minutes, and it took a single overnight processing session to sort that out.
It must be the fact its an iMovie film thats causing problems, but can someone advise me how to speed it up ?
I am assuming it will finish, and I'll have a pristine DVD (lol)
If you use google you will see that many people have the same issue, as on this forum. Some people have speculated its MP3, or other audio issues on the iMovie soundtrack, but until someone can say and publish definitively what it is I (and many other) apple users are unable to burn their DVD's.
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Load Avg: 0.99, 1.12, 1.10 CPU usage: 53.4% user, 8.5% sys, 38.1% idle
SharedLibs: num = 181, resident = 42.6M code, 4.83M data, 6.76M LinkEdit
MemRegions: num = 12645, resident = 339M + 21.1M private, 125M shared
PhysMem: 107M wired, 443M active, 459M inactive, 1011M used, 13.0M free
VM: 8.13G + 129M 37788(0) pageins, 888(0) pageouts
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688 top 13.9% 0:01.73 1 18 22 1008K 296K 1.41M 26.9M
374 iDVD 100.3% 62:46.50 18 257 1131 78.9M 30.0M 76.4M 303M
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Just add to Bengt's good advice:
Encoding audio is the slowest part of rendering, and can take many hours. Great patience, even an intermittent alternative hobby, is called for.
Make sure no other application is running, make sure you have not set the hard disk to go to sleep and that the screen saver will not come on. Leave it overnight, or have a 36 hole game of golf.
Sooner or later iDVD will finish!

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