I have no problem burning mpeg with nero....other than that it takes 7-9hours !
A 788meg file it needs to convert it 3gig.....than it takes all night to do the job?????????
More technically, when you try to butn mpegs with Nero, if first checks if it is in standard format (DVD: 720x480/576, 23,976/25 fps [NTSC/PAL]).
If it 's not, Nero first encodes the movie (many hours), then burn it (few minutes).
From your size estimate, it is clear that Nero is trying to encode your mpeg into a DVD movie copliant to your system.
It is absurd: if you have a 352x240 mpeg (VCD NTSC) it's trying to convert it, for example, into a 720x576 (DVD PAL) one!!
First, since Nero auto-encoding engine isn't good, make what scf_au suggests you:
1) encode the movie in standard format.
2) author the movie into a DVD/SVCD/VCD image.
3) burn that image here you can use with Nero.
As encoder, you can use VSO or TMPGenc, CCE, what you have/you like. To author (the process Standard MPG --> image) you can use much stuff DVD Lab is the only one which accepts to insert multiple (S)VCD movies in a DVD image (see http://www.afterdawn.com/guides/).
As burner, use what you want.
Only a suggestion: check the quality of the input movie (resolution and, if AVI, bitrate), first doing anything with it. Since garbage in = garbage out, don't try to encode a 352x288/240 mpeg (VCD) into a 720x480/576 movie (DVD). You'll only obtain crap. Leaving a (S)VCD movie as it is (or converting a low bitrate AVI into a (S)VCD movie) and then authoring it, toghether many other, into a DVD image. You'll just have , instead of making a MPEG (S)VCD movie, to resample its audio 44.1 kHz [(S)VCD] --> 48 kHz [DVD], is the best, and quickest, way..
In the forum's title (AVI to DVD) DVD must be read as 'physical support', not as '720x480/576 movie'.
Now that I changed my hardware to a 2.4gig pro. and 800megs of ram....Nero only takes approx. 2.5 hours for a full 4.7gig single layer burn.( encoding I mean ).......Can anyone show me how to do better do better?
