How much hard drive space do I need?

[leesider]

I have just bought the DVR-A04 and am considering making my own DVD's but I am not sure if my PC is good enough for it.
Is it true that you need 120 GB of free hard disk space in order to successfully burn a DVD from VHS?
I only have about 30 GB free at the mo'
Also, do you have to have a 2 Ghz processor?
I only have a 1 Ghz and am wondering if it will be good enough.
This stuff has probably been answered on an earlier thread, I looked but I couldn't find it anywhere!

[epo]

Absolute minimum is 2x amount to be written to DVD. Provided You encode to MPEG-2 on the fly and will not do any editing. For live soft MPEG encoders 2GHz is a minimum(or below), for HW MPEG capture something above 500MHz is enough. Capturing device/codec/resolution states Your processor requirement. For offline encoding any processor will do (even old 8088 will be ready with encode in few years ). In this case more HD space is needed, depending of capture codec. + up to 4.3 GB for encoded files. You can delete source before authoring DVD to fit the VOBs. (I'm not recommending)
So, free space needed is DVD-full MPEG(4.3 GB) + DVD-full of capture (amount varries). Put it simple - Your system with 30GB free is enough. But all DVD work will be done much more painless with dual HDs as wast amount of data will be copied over mostly more than once. And copying large files to another HD is about 10x faster (and saves drive).

[leesider]

Cheers, thanks.