record DVD from VHS?

I have a CentOS-5.2 machine with a DVD recorder, and lots of old VHS tapes
of family affairs. What sort of hardware and software is required to record
these VHS tapes onto DVDs, please?

$ man -k player; man -k dvd
aplay (1) - command-line sound recorder and player for ALSA
soundcard driver
arecord [aplay] (1) - command-line sound recorder and player for ALSA
soundcard driver
ffplay (1) - FFplay media player
lqtplay (1) - simple quicktime movie player for X11
mencoder [mplayer] (1) - movie encoder
mplayer (1) - movie player
mplayer (rpm) - MPlayer, the Movie Player for Linux
mplayer-docs (rpm) - Documentation for MPlayer, the Movie Player for
Linux
mplayer-fonts (rpm) - Font files for MPlayer
totem (1) - GNOME-desktop movie player based on the xine
backend
totem (rpm) - Movie player for GNOME 2
xine (1) - a free video player
xine (5) - a free video player
xine (rpm) - Free multimedia player
xine-check (1) - a checker for the xine video player
xine-check [xine-bugreport] (1) - a checker for the xine video player
xine-lib (rpm) - Core library of the xine multimedia player
xine-skins (rpm) - Collection of skins for the Xine multimedia
player
xlsfonts (1x) - server font list displayer for X
xprop (1x) - property displayer for X
xwud (1x) - image displayer for X
String::Scanf [Video::DVDRip::CPAN::Scanf] (3pm) - emulate sscanf() of the
C library
Video::DVDRip (3pm) - GUI for copying DVDs, based on an open Low
Level API
cdrecord (rpm) - A command line CD/DVD recording program.
cdrwtool (1) - perform various actions on a CD-R, CD-RW, and
DVD-R
dvd+rw-tools (rpm) - Toolchain to master DVD+RW/+R media
dvd::rip [dvdrip] (1) - GUI for copying DVDs
dvdrecord (1) - record audio or data Compact Discs and DVDs from
a master
dvdrip (rpm) - Graphical DVD ripping and encoding tool based on
transcode
dvdxchap (1) - Extract chapter information from DVDs
growisofs (1) - combined mkisofs frontend/DVD recording program
libdvdcss (rpm) - Portable abstraction library for DVD decryption
libdvdnav (rpm) - DVD menu navigation library
libdvdread (rpm) - Library for reading DVD video disks
lsdvd (1) - read the content info of a DVD
lsdvd (rpm) - Small application for displaying the contents of
a DVD
subtitleripper (rpm) - DVD subtitle ripper



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