A program called DVdriver, available at http://www.trackercam.com, lets you feed your camcorder’s video to any program designed to work with a webcam. It lets you easily choose how big you want the video image to be.
Yes–TrackerCam has a text messaging feature. But it also works well in conjunction with the popular instant messaging services–TrackerCam supplies the video and the IM software does the text messaging. From the perspective of the IM software, TrackerCam just appears to be a webcam.