The video below shows a BVH file being imported into Blender 2.5
and attached (through 'parenting') to the free 'Biped' rig from
Nathan Vegdahl. This silent 11 minute video is about 15MB and is in
WMV format, should you choose to download it.
Here is the BVH file
I used and here is the
Biped file. If you're feeling too lazy to remove the bones from the
Biped file here
is a Biped file with the bones removed. The BVH file is a free file
offered by trueBones.com
(registration required) but thousands more BVH files are available
for free download as indicated on the previous page. Here is a
truebones free BVH file of someone climbing a rope. The advantage of
truebones files over the Carnegie Mellon files is that they are less
complex and may better match the skins (bodies) that you are likely
to find or to make.