[piikea]

in my experience, nero is a piece of sh@t! it is slow, the latest version doesn't allow you to set burn speed & 80% of the time has had problems loading or "analyzing" content or IF it does burn there have been freezing and/or aud/vid out of sync problems.
my P4, 1.4GHz, 384Mb RAM & less than 2 yr old lite-on burner should be adequate so i doubt it's my pc. i had an OEM bundled version which completely sucked. then was dumb enough to get a full retail version & it hasn't been much better. i rarely even try to use it unless i need to add menus/chapters (but it's rarely successful anyway).

Gear dvd & NTI dvd maker have worked for me w/o fail (for the same dvd's that nero had problems with). NTI could not be simpler to use & start to finish burns in 15 min's or less. (note: no menu adding capability though or either).

you can try the free dvd shrink of course & just use "no compression" (unless it's needed).