Capturing live video for streaming

Hello everyone
I know this is a Premier hardwere forum
But I could not find a better place to ask
i want to capture live video (i have avchd camcoder vixia hfs 21) to my laptop and stream it in the same time with the Adobe Flash Media Live Encoder
i read about the Black magic Solution like the Intensity Shuttle, with good price, but i understand that this machine good for cupture but dont work well with the FMLE.
Does anyone have a solution for me that can fit a laptop too.
tanks gavriel

Harm Millaard wrote:
Can't be done. You can't capture from that camera, only import, it can't be done live and it can't be streamed live in Flash format.
Even if I have a HDMI output port and a\v output?
If so what kind of equipment do I need to do the job properly?

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