diff --git a/MUNGA_L4/L4SPLR.cpp b/MUNGA_L4/L4SPLR.cpp
index 5f0bdd2..0a17fc4 100644
--- a/MUNGA_L4/L4SPLR.cpp
+++ b/MUNGA_L4/L4SPLR.cpp
@@ -285,6 +285,46 @@ L4PlaybackNetworkManager::L4PlaybackNetworkManager():
 	networkEggNotationFile = new NotationFile(egg_name);
 	Register_Object(networkEggNotationFile);
 
+	//
+	// Decide now whether this is a camera station, not later.
+	//
+	// StartConnecting already works this out from the local host's type and
+	// sets it - but StartConnecting runs after the mission is created, and
+	// the cockpit is built before that. The log says so plainly: the egg is
+	// read here, SVGA16 fits the cockpit eleven lines later, and the Live
+	// Cam line arrives five lines after THAT. So a camera's recording came
+	// back with a pod's cockpit over it - five instrument panes and the map
+	// in the middle - because the answer arrived after the panes had been
+	// made.
+	//
+	// The egg has it: the first entry in [pilots] is the station that
+	// owned the race, and its own section carries the hostType. Reading it
+	// here is early enough, and it is the same fact StartConnecting will
+	// confirm from the host table afterwards.
+	//
+	const char *owner_address;
+
+	if (networkEggNotationFile->GetEntry("pilots", "pilot", &owner_address))
+	{
+		int owner_host_type = 0;
+
+		if (networkEggNotationFile->GetEntry(
+				owner_address, "hostType", &owner_host_type))
+		{
+			Logical owner_is_camera =
+				(owner_host_type == (int) CameraShipHostType);
+
+			Application::SetCameraStation(owner_is_camera);
+			DEBUG_STREAM << "Playback: the owning station '" << owner_address
+				<< "' recorded as hostType " << owner_host_type
+				<< (owner_is_camera
+						? " - a Live Cam, so no instrument panes and the map"
+						  " landscape in the corner"
+						: " - a pod, so the full cockpit")
+				<< "\n" << std::flush;
+		}
+	}
+
 	//
 	// The handler is NetworkManager's, and it ends in CreateMission, which
 	// is what calls StartConnecting below to read the host table back out