*happy dance*
Perfect! the motion detection works great, I bumped the video resolution up (an amazing 704 x 480!) and took off encoding, it's a little slow, but it should be more than good enough to read plates from the back alley, plus yawcam does just have the option to save an image (500ms seems to be the best workable option, maybe with a USB webcam it would work faster, but this is alright), and email notification with the images as well, so within around two minutes, usually closer to one, I get an email a load of images, seems to be set to around 30 right now. Sure it's no live feed, but this is one step better.