Webcam/Lego Studio Moviemaker question?

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My son got the Lego Studio Moviemaker kit for Christmas (very cool and quite powerful considering how easy it is to use). I got everything working but started noticing that my mouse pointer was flickering rapidly from hourglass to pointer. I checked my background programs and sure enough there was one called LVcom running in the background. I usually have the only the bare essentials running so I killed it off. Then I removed it from the autostart list and rebooted. Somehow it still manages to start itself up no matter what I do. I think all it's doing is sitting there looking for the webcam. I'm not sure if it runs once the webcam is found. I'll have to see when I get home.

Is this typical of any software that works with a webcam or is it just a Lego/Pinnacle thing? How can I get rid of it and only start it when needed?

 

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The tech support guy at Lego was an idiot (yea, hard to believe I know). He tried to pass this little application off as "firmware". When he realized that I actually understood what firmware really was he got kind of snippy and then tried to bail himself out with some ridiculous explanation about how firmware was sometimes software that was required to interface with hardware..blah,blah, blah. He wouldn't or couldn't give me a straight answer on what it was actually doing and why it started itself up. My guess is that it prevents you from using any other type of webcam than that one that comes with the kit.

He kept asking me if it was actually using and significant resources. Of course it isn't but that really isn't the point.

Anybody have any ideas?