Two capture programs that ought to be significantly easier to capture with than Windows Media Encoder or Windows Movie Maker are WinDV and VirtualVCR.
WinDV literally records straight from a DV camcorder (90% of these will take video input by buying a composite jack coupler and plugging a feed into the traditional video output port.) Then, spacebar will start and stop recording, automatically splitting the file each time, making it
very easy to parse matches. (As long as you don't have it set to capture every 150th frame, like 177 did for Jersey 2007 (Though this is nice for timelapsing)). DV files are not tiny, but capturing only a few hours should not be too large.
VirtualVCR serves a similar function, except it is compatible with any capture device that has a WDM driver, not just DV cameras (that means ~everything). I honestly have not used it much and am unfamiliar with the way it operates, but it could be a great alternative if you cannot capture using DV.