I wrote a Udf to manage webcams with Direct Show instead of using avicap and dll32 dll. Advantages vs the other Webcam UDF based on avicap32 and user32 dll: - doesn't request to choose which webcam from list dropdown box - you can precisely set: width, height, (bitplane ?? doesn't seem to work ) - you can set the video source resolution prior to scale it to the GUI and you can go up to 1920x1080 while with avicap you are limited at 640x480 - you can choose video compression in sav