[ideasrule]

OK, here's a summary of the issues.

1) Lag started off as 5 seconds. Patrick set all camera settings to the best possible (highest resolution, 0 compression, etc) and the lag reduced to half a second.

2) We found out that, contrary to expectations, decreasing resolution and increasing compression both increased lag time.

3) We then switched to the developer account and found out that lag time on 640x480 was still half a second. Upon switching to 320x240 resolution, lag time decreased to virtually nil and, for the first time, we had a live feed that's actually live.

4) A day later, with no altering of camera settings, lag time increased to half a second again.