Burning to disk with Windows Media Center takes a very long time.

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I recorded a one hour news broadcast from Windows Media Center, included in Windows 7 Home Premium, not upgraded to Windows 10 - 64 bit. I had to set the time for Windows going to sleep to 2 hours. But that didn't make any difference. I began the DVD burn last night, around 9 PM. Left the computer on all night. This morning I had to wake the computer up and it was setting on 89 percent, but I had to go out to vote today, take my wife to her breast evaluation that lasted 3 hours and once back home, I noticed my computer was back in sleep mode. The message on the welcome screen read: PASSWORD IS INCORRECT. I did not try to log in. I usually got an open text line to type in my computer's password. I clicked on OK and the window for typing password appeared so I entered it in and Windows desktop appeared as usual, I maximized Windows Media Center and clicked on the burn to disc and it was still sitting at 89%. I tried to exit the program but got another message: If you close this application your disc burn process will stop and your DVD will be corrupt and unusable. Are you sure you want to close this application? I clicked No obviously, but I think that the computer power settings, having been changed to stay awake for 2 hours after shutting off the monitor after 1 hour, requires a restart. Well, I am stuck in the middle. I can not restart the computer now, because when I am using it, the burn process is still going on. It said: THE BURN PROCESS MAY TAKE SEVERAL HOURS. So far the computer goes to sleep after half an hour, not after 2 hours, as it was set that way as a preset. Although I did go to settings and adjust the time to 2 hours before going to sleep. I guess I have to stay and stare at my computer for two hours and keep the mouse moving a bit so my PC doesn't go to sleep. Apparently, sleeping computers do not finish the burn to DVD process. Either that or this 1 hour recording from Windows Media Center is taking so long that this may very well explain why Windows 10 removes it after an upgrade from Windows 7. I can't spend 24 hours just to burn a copy of a 1 hour high definition television news show. Below is a helpful link: