Mac OS X > iDVD appears to be not responding/hung

While creating my first DVD using iDVD, the system got to a point where iDVD was "Encoding Audio" and seemed to be not responding or hung.

I even checked from the system menu (Apple > Force Quit) and the window shows "iDVD (not responding)".

Explanation: It seems the "Encoding Audio" process is a very slow task. It takes a long time to finish this. For DVDs longer than an hour it could take more than 6 hours to process everything.

The Operating system seems to be unaware of the fact that iDVD is doing a lot of painfully slow background processing.

How to Fix it?:

1. Wait


2. If you can't wait, then you'll have to make a shorter iDVD project and start the process from scratch...


3. To find out if iDVD is really active and working, do this:
   Open "Applications"
   Open "Terminal"
   Go to your iDVD project, probably within "Documents" (cd Documents[Enter]), then enter to your project (cd [Project-Name].dvdproj[Enter]).
   Enter to your Audio directory:
   cd Contents/Resources/Audio[Enter]
   Enter the following instruction: ls -l[Enter]
   You should see an output similar to:
   -rw-r--r-- 1 user user 271776048 Sep 22 15:40 tempmovie.mov
   Wait a few minutes and repeat the same instruction again, you should see the file increase its size:
   -rw-r--r-- 1 user user 281856048 Sep 22 15:48 tempmovie.mov

That's the only indication your iDVD project is not really hung.