IDVD Encoding; Why dose it take so long?

Hi ive been trying to burn a 5gb movie in mp4 format with I dvd on a dual layer DVD, the encoding settings are set to high quality. im using a macbook pro with 2.4 ghz and 4gb ram. the estimated time for it says 80 hours. I left it alone for like 3 hours, closed all other aplications, and now it says 120 hours! thats outrageous. is this normal? and is there any way to speed it up so it wont take more than a day?

Some file types take a very long time to encode in iDVD. 
For example, source files encoded with some flavors of h.264 (while highly optimised and high in quality) do take significant effort to decode and play.  If the source file has been created in an application like Handbrake where the encoder options can be very complex, then this can happen when used in iDVD.

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