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THanks richmelchr !! Those Usage instructions did it!

Weird update: I updated to the latest version of iSpy, and it works great now. 2-3 seconds to start recording! I noticed in the release notes it lists "Updated to use latest AForge framework and VLC wrapper and Tesseract Wrapper." so that might have something to do with it. The latest comp...

Ok, I tried other 3rd party apps, and there is no delay (unless they use VLC drivers, for ex. iSpy which has the same 8 second delay to start recording ). Ran test with: Active Webcam http://www.pysoft.com/ActiveWebCamMainpage.htm With the app closed, I started recording via command line ( "C:\...

That sounds like a driver bug.

A bug in the camera drivers? Or VLC? Or my soundcard?

Thanks for the help

Tried via command line, same result: Video + Audio: 10 seconds to start capturing vlc.exe dshow:// :dshow-vdev="Microsoft LifeCam Studio" :dshow-adev="Studio - Microsoft LifeCam." :dshow-caching=200 --sout=#transcode{vcodec=mp4v,vb=1024,fps=30,width=320,scale=1,acodec=aac}:duplic...

VLC 1.1.11 Windows XP SP3 AMD Athlon II X4 4GB ram Microsoft Lifecam Studio webcam Open Capture Device > Video Device Name: "Microsoft Lifecam Studio" Audio Device Name: "none" > Play = starts capturing in 2 seconds but when I enable the audio: Open Capture Device > Video Device ...