IDVD is incredibly slow when burning to DVD

Hi,
I have just recently upgraded to iLife 06...why is iDVD so incredibly slow. It took nearly 3 hours to burn a 43 minute DVD....I don't understand.
My computer is iMac G5 1.8GHZ PowerPC
Memory is 1.25 GB
It is so frustrating. Is anyone else having this problem?

I was surprised how long my MacBook has been taking to burn DVDs. It took about 4 hours to burn 2 episodes of Lost with "better quality" — couldn't use "better performance" because it can't even fit 84 minutes of video on a DVD — and I noticed that iDVD came nowhere near using all of my processing power. I've got 2 gigs of ram and a 2 GHz processor, so I would like it if iDVD actually used all of it, when I'm not doing anything else. I saw about 130% CPU usage max (out of 200%). Anyone know how to bump up iDVD's process priority or something to make it use all of the power it can?
Edit: I forgot to mention that the episodes were divx or xvid files to start with, so I'm not sure if that slows it down a lot, since it has to transcode.

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