With digital video, you might be running into overheating because you're not
only capturing, but building a WMV file from the temporary DV-AVI file being
built during the capture...

Capture to a DV-AVI file so the CPU isn't running extra to build the WMV at
the same time.
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"MrJims" <omerfr@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hello,
> Situation:
> My laptop shuts down without any messages (even after reboot) when I
> try to capture video from my camcorder using Windows Movie maker. At
> first this was happening only when I used the high quality (large)
> video setting instead of the recommended setting, which is pathetic
> video quality. Anyways - I tried my first tape which had about 20
> minutes of recording at the recommended setting and it captured without
> any issues. After that I tried it with high quality setting, as I wasnt
> happy with the video quality and poof the laptop just shut down. After
> that I started looking the problem up and saw a bunch of references to
> similar problems. But none that helped me because they were mostly
> hardware specs related, one aspect I think I am covered on except for
> the video card which I doubt is a problem - details of the hardware are
> below. I dont get any error reports even when I reboot the laptop -
> dont know what the problem is but need to figure out how to stop it
> from happening - or my HDD will be toast at this rate.
>
> Hardware specs
> Laptop - Toshiba Tecra M2, Centrino 2Ghz, 2GB RAM, 80 GB HDD (25GB
> free), NVIDIA GeForceFX Go5200 64MB
> Camcorder - Panasonic PV-GS200
> Video input - DV tapes from camcorder using DV cable (IEEE 1394)
>
> Thanks
> Omer
>