Video editing programs vs Philips SPC700 webcam

For the last year and a half, I have been using a Philips webcam, model SPC 700 . It has a good picture quality compared to many webcams in its price range.

Recently, I started doing some video editing. I noticed that every single video editing application that I used was unstable and would crash inexplicably.

I have now discovered that the culprit was this webcam. The Microsoft developer studio led me to this highly suspicious stack :

> vphc700.dll!153163ce()  
 [Frames below may be incorrect and/or missing, no symbols loaded for vphc700.dll] 
 ole32.dll!76e4b381()  
 ole32.dll!76e4b536()  
 ole32.dll!76e4b454()  
 ole32.dll!76e4b5f3()  
 mfc80u.dll!733b9c80()  
 mfc80u.dll!7337d04b()  
 mfc80u.dll!733a89ee()  
 mfc80u.dll!733a9d15()  
 mfc80u.dll!733a8874()  
 mfc80u.dll!7337d33b()  
 Studio.exe!0078ab76()  
 kernel32.dll!76a7e3f3()  
 ntdll.dll!776ccfed()  
 ntdll.dll!776cd1ff()  
 Studio.exe!00790065()  
 Studio.exe!00700079()  
 Studio.exe!006e0065()  
 Studio.exe!006e0065()  
 Studio.exe!006e0065()  
 Studio.exe!0062005f()  
 Studio.exe!0062005f()  
 Studio.exe!006e0065()  
 Studio.exe!00700079()  
 Studio.exe!00700061()  
 Studio.exe!00700061()  
 Studio.exe!00700061()  
 Studio.exe!00700061()  
 Studio.exe!00700061()  
 Studio.exe!00700061()  
 Studio.exe!005c0032()  

After unplugging the webcam, I am able to do video editing without any problem.

As it turns out, Philips has not updated the webcam software for Vista since april 2007, so there is no fix that can be downloaded.

I will no longer use this webcam. I may use it with another computer where I don't do video editing, sell it, or maybe even give it to one of my cats to chew - he loves chewing webcam cables.