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I have the same problem with Canon HV20 HDV camcorder. I've tried with Windows XP and Vista and even with different audio & video transcoding options, but it always takes the audio from the firewire HDV-stream. It seems like a bug, because VLC works just great with HDV-files, and with webcams et...

Select "Open capture device" from the menu and select your HDV camocorder as video input device. Select Stream/save and settings. Set it to an output file, and select MPEG PS as encapsulation method. Don't use any video or audio codecs at this time. This will give you an MPEG2-file, which ...