Recording live digicam to hard drive

[road_rascal]

Some thugs in my neighborhood keep vandalizing my Christmas decorations (and the next door neighbor's). We've been hit three times now- this is during the day. Is there a simple way to use my digital video camcorder (mini DV) and my laptop to record live video to the hard drive so I might have a chance to catch the boneheads in the act? My neighbor is ready to start burying Claymores .

[RFBurns]

If the laptop is capable of capturing video and sports a video capturing module then its a simple matter of plugging in the camera's video out to the input on the laptop and then use the capture card's program to record the video, and audio if necessary.

[road_rascal]

OK. After some poking around the web I found a program call UViewIt (www dot UViewIt dot com) which does what I want. Did a trial run today when I was at work. It did a decent job, and I can see when the mailman shows up too... Now all I have to do is figure out how to do this with a wireless camera setup so I don't have to keep using my camcorder.