interesting...I found it to be the opposite...and let's clarify some things:

you use the word burn, when you actually meant transcode...and that is pretty much totally dependent upon the speed of your cpu and the amount of ram you have...if you've got some sort of application running in the background that is sucking away resources that will indeed make a difference, as will continually surfing online or doing massive downloading...

I've got a 2.8GHz P4 OC'd to 3.01GHz with 2GB of ram...it takes on the average an hour to transcode and burn a typical .avi file and I burn @ 8x to make sure that it turns out good

anywho, I've got nothing but good things to say about Nero7, though to be specific I use the Ultra version...

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