DVD Workshop question

[Stile]

I code DV format to MPEG-2 with TMPGEnc. Then I author it (add chapters and menus) with Ulead DVD Workshop. When I want to burn it, step 4 (multiplexing video/audio) takes a long time (aprox. 1.5 hours for 1.5 hour of video). Is it normal and do you have this step 4 which lasts long time?
Thanks...

[Nolonemo]

That's a long time. I'd say multiplexing should take 5 or 10 min, IF you brought in a compliant mpg.

What are the specs of your audio stream? Did you check the "do not encode compliant files" box if using v 1.2? Give more specific info.

[Stile]

I brought compliant MPEG and I checked the option "do not encode compliant files". Estimated time is 1.5 hours but it seems that multiplexing is going much faster. I think about 15-20 minutes. Do you think that this is long?

[JediXR]

total file size?? Processor speed video card?? time is relevent as Einstien said, whereas 20 min on 1g file would not be long it would for 10M file unless that 10M file was run on a pci video card and or PII or Duron <1Ghz...

[epo]

Perfect, if muxing to the same HD. Should be less if on RAID or to another HD. As about Ulead estimations ... final one "finalizing VOB" or something, seems to be only one right.

[Stile]

total file size?? Processor speed video card?? time is relevent as Einstien said, whereas 20 min on 1g file would not be long it would for 10M file unless that 10M file was run on a pci video card and or PII or Duron <1Ghz...

Total file size is 4.2 GB. Processor is Athlon XP 2000+, 256 MB DDR RAM. I think that video card is not relevant here. It is MSI GeForce2 MX400 -> this is graphic card. If you ment video card, I don't have it. I capture DV through FireWire...