First up it is the wrong forum. It will not get noticed here. (Btw Gordon if you give me mod access to this forum I'll move it myself)
I haven't used the camera stuff much although next week I am hopefully going to use it with a nightclub camera setup so I will play then and give you any pointers I find. ANd if it does work I'll make a few scenes with it.
The camera stuff I don't think has been too heavily testest for teh main reason there are hundreds of camera there and Gordon will not have access to them all.
I don't know if it has been test on more than a few webcams tbh.
The fraps stuff will work but to record a 30fps it *will* slow down some as it has to dispaly teh graphics *and* record.. you graphics card is ok but a better card will no doubt get quicker framerates.
But try hypercam too see if that is any better.
reduce the buffer size down in R4 see what that give you.
Teh best way still to record R4 stuff is a standalone DVD recorder.