We have found an elegant solution starting vlc with the following command: start /min “VLCStreamer” c:\”Program Files”\VideoLAN\vlc\vlc -vvv -Ihttp dshow:// :dshow-vdev=”Sony Visual Communication Camera VGP-VCC7″ :sout=#transcode{fps=10,vcodec=h264,vb=0,scale=0,acodec=mp4a,ab=128,channels=2,samplerate=44100}:duplicate{dst=