The point is, VLC can't do that currently. Can you elaborate? With 0.8.6a I transcoded a live DV camera to MPEG4 and offered it for download via HTTP (VideoLan client on Windows) plenty of times. Was this removed in 0.9.x? When I try to transcode my built-in Webcam to H.264 on 0.9.9. on Vista now, ...