Time to burn a DVD?

This may be the wrong forum for this question, but I believe it's Mac specific, and I don't know where else to post it.
Using TiVo transfer (part of Toast 8), I transferred some programs from my TiVo disk to my Mac. I'm now in the process of writing two of these programs to a DVD (~3.12 GB total) . . . but the process is incredibly slow! I estimate that it'll take well over two hours to complete!
Under "disk burning," my System Profiler says "MATSHITA DVD-R UJ-85J." Should it take over two hours to burn a 3-GB DVD-R (NTSC format)?
Thanks.
Greg
Dual 2.33 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo   Mac OS X (10.4.9)   2 GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM

You aren't clear as to what type of DVD you are burning, it depends, as the other poster mentioned above.
If you are just burning data files to make a computer DVD data disc, I don't think it should take more than 2 hours, depending on speed, it should be probably around 15-30mins +/-
If you are burning a DVD video disc that will play in a DVD player, then the encoding can take a very long time with high CPU usage during the encoding process. In my older slower computer it may take overnight easily to encode that much video. If I want more than one copy, I usually burn to disc image, so that the second DVD doesn't have to repeat all that encoding again.
Can you see the DVD drive burn activity lights come on during that 2 hours? I expect the acutal burn hasn't even started yet, that the DVD video files are still being created. Doesn't Toast give you some progress feedback or status as to what particular phase it is working on? Any messages about encoding...?

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