Hi - long time lurker, first time poster. Can I get a sanity check? What I'd like to do is write an image from QC to disk. I know from reading old archives that the stock patches don't write for security reasons - some bad guy could presumably make a .qtz file on a web page somewhere that wrote /etc/passwd or just filled your hard disk, or similar shenanigans. Ok - fine. But can I write my own Plugin to do it myself? It seems pretty straightforward - consumer patch (right?), image and a filename as input, write it (presumably only when the filename changed). Or is there something in the QC system itself that will thwart my evil scheme of saving my pictures to disk? I mean - to get bit this way, you'd have to install the "save image" patch yourself, right? (I can think of at least 3 different ways to trivially prevent QC writing to disk from being an issue, but that's another topic).
I have odd geekish fantasies that someone else has already done this, and can either point me to source (I got nothing to prove - I just want to save images) - or can tell me once and for all why it can't work, and I can ride off into the sunset, sad but wiser. (My original plan was to simply virtualize the video source, and feed one to QC while I grabbed the other one, but manycam got broke by snow leopard... I'm trying to do a photoboothish kinda thing. You know. For kids.) I know this could all be solved by wrapping this up in an application. I'm trying not to go there. I do ruby when I can - Objective-C fills me with dread. And yeah, I know, the patch would need to be Objective-C, but it's different. Somehow. -- Tom Bortels -- [email protected] $DO || ! $DO ; try try : command not found
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