DV capturing app that can...

[tangnanya]

...automatically converts (while it's capturing from a DV camcorder) the file to DIVX or XVID?

[redwudz]

I don't know of any. And unless you had a very fast computer, I doubt it could keep up with a on-the-fly conversion from DV to Xvid or Divx. Maybe a hardware encoder, but either way the quality would suffer.

And welcome to our forums.

[jimmalenko]

I believe that one of the later releases of virtualdub or one of its variants had experimental DV device capturing support. I don't know whether it would do the job you require, but may be worth a look.

[JohnnyMalaria]

Disclaimer: I know nothing about DivX encoders(!)

Possibly, you might be able to use GraphEdit. If the DivX encoder is a DirectShow filter then you can manually build the "filter graph" required to capture live DV input, encode it to DivX and save it. I've done this successfully with DV to MPEG2.

Perhaps a DivX guru can fill in the missing pieces....