How to decrease the time needed to burn a dvd from .avi?

Computer: dv6736nr (HP Pavillion turion 64 x2 2.0 Ghz, 4 gb ram, vista 64)

I currently use windows dvd maker to turn .avi files into dvd format on dvds to watch on the television. It takes about 3 hours to encode a 700 mb avi file and 15-20 minutes to burn the data. Is there anyway I can decrease the time needed to encode from avi to dvd format? (Other can computer upgrade) Is there some sort of software that is better at encoding?

Thanks

 

The CPU speed is the biggest factor in video encoding. Unless you get a faster computer, you're not going to see much of an improvement.

 

From the task manager change the priority of Windows DVD maker process to High or Real time.

 

go to task manager, set the affinity of all processes on one core and your codec on the 2nd one.

 

Real time is never recommended unless you want to risk crashing the OS. In real-time, the process receives all the CPU time it wants. This is a recipe for disaster.

What you can do is make sure that you're using a multi-threaded encoding program.

 

99% of all mpeg2 codecs are single threaded. Unless he decides to burn 2 or more dvds at once, having a multi-threaded encoding program will not make it faster.

 

If that's the case, then there isn't much the OP can do to speed it up.

 

Thanks for the replies. I'll just keep doing what I am doing. Does anyone know why I did not notice faster encoding after I went from Vista 32 to Vista 64? I thought the 64 bit OS was going to make my CPUs twice as fast.

How much faster would a 8xxx series Intel core 2 duo be?

 

You can use a different program like WinAVI to convert to DVD format, then burn. 15-20min to burn sounds like around a 4x burn, you could cut that in half if you had better discs that could burn at 8x (unless you have a 4x burner?)