DVD burner on an old pc

[J]

MY pc is fairly old and i was wondering would i have any problems if i were to upgrade to a dvd burner,i mostly want to burn video files?

 

[robisbell]

what are the specs of the system, if it's less than a 2Ghz system and less than a GB of ram, burning dvd's will be slower than molasses in winter.

 

[dclive]

Originally posted by: BJay
MY pc is fairly old and i was wondering would i have any problems if i were to upgrade to a dvd burner,i mostly want to burn video files?

Assuming you aren't talking about creating those video files, but just to write the .ISO or .ts files to video, any modern machine that can do 5MB/s or thereabouts from the disk and to the DVD can handle this.

A new C2D can do 8X that, and so even oldie P4 and perhaps even better P3 systems should be able to handle it quite easily.

 

[montag451]

For burning to dvd, shouldn't be a problem.

We work on refurb p3 systems and they don't have probs - ok, so not the fastest, but no probs.

 

[jackschmittusa]

Recently replaced a machine for someone who was burning DVDs on a Duron 1000 with 512mb ram.

 

[oynaz]

I use a PIII with 512 Mb of RAM as well. No problem with burning DVDs. Encoding them is another matter though.

 

[Slammy1]

My friend runs 384 MB on a P3 850 (my old system) and gets reasonable burn times running CloneDVD, anywhere from 12 to 25 minutes, depending on the amount of compression. I actually find that fairly impressive. I think the minimum processor speed for running a DVD is around 250MHz, but I'd be reluctant to run it for anything but basic playback and data copies.

 

[Soundmanred]

I use my secondary machine (P4 1.6GHz with 512MB of PC100 SDRAM) to burn DVD's all day long, and it takes about 11 minutes to burn a video DVD (~4.32 GB).