Capture and save HDV

[mjhd]

I am a beginner user of VLC and digital video in general. I found the control quite difficult, I guess it is because VLC is oriented for serving stream and be in hands of very technical guys.
So far I was able to set capture input device to iLink (IEEE1394) and accept HDV from a camcorder. The video is played very well in 1080i. Now my question is how to save it to a file so I can use it later in WMP or WMCE (in .wmv format preferably). Somebody advised here “try asf encapsulation with mp3 audio and DIV3 video”. I am not sure that I understand that. Sorry for a low level of my question but I just started to learn.
Thanks

[Guest]

Assuming you want to save the resolution and also want WMV3 VLC at the moment is not the tool. In the next revision ffmepeg will be handling this for VLC and transcoding HD material should be available. At the moment WMV3 playback is handled through dshow and under Windows only.

You may be able to transcode in h.264 (AVC) with MP4a (AAC) in a MP4 or MOV container, This is QuickTime's HD format.

[streg]

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 will play on WMP. Then use MediaCoder or similar transcoding tool to convert it to a smaller, more compressed format.