Moviemaker crashes when capturing video

[Boston Guy]

Hi - I'm trying to capture video from a mini-DV Canon camcorder using
my year-old Compaq Presario laptop with XP, 512 megs of RAM (at
least). Moviemaker recognizes the camcorder connection (via Firewire)
but freezes up at different points, and I can never actually capture
any video. It freezes so badly that even task manager stops
responding. Anyone with experience have a suggestion?
many thanks
richard in boston

 

[Guest]

You probably lack the correct codec.

Using codecs:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/player/faq/codec.mspx