Re: PC freeze during capture with windows movie maker

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Have a read of this page,
http://www.myvideoproblems.com/Tutorials/OptimiseMyPcForVideo.htm
most of which is relevant to laptops as well.

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"Jacques" <Jacques@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> When I use Windows Movie Maker to capture from my DV camcorder, the CPU is
> at
> 100 % and the fan is always working. Then, after approximately 5 minutes
> of
> capture, my PC freeze and I have to reboot it. Then I see that a 39 MB
> video
> file (.wmv) and a 468 MB .tmp file have been created.
> I have a notebook 2.4 GHz with 512 MB of RAM. I have ordered a notebook
> cooler but it will come in about 2 weeks.
> I tried to capture my video with the Samsung software coming with my
> camcorder, it worked, the CPU was low during the capture but the video
> captured was of poor quality.
> Can you help ?


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