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trache · 03-01-2005, 07:14 AM

AFAIK, if one process has control of the webcam itself, for example, the Logitech software for QuickCams, nothing else can use the camera (locally). Try this yourself. Start using your webcam with any software and then try to open another program that uses the webcam. Only one will be able to connect.

If you are using the webcam over Yahoo! or MSN, then most definitely someone can take the image. This happens quite plainly because you cannot control what happens to the information once it is transmitted to the destination computer. If someone wants to write a piece of software that reads the information off of the Yahoo!/MSN communication (and it happens to be a webcam image) it is tough luck for you. The best you could do is not use it over the network or failing that, find webcam software that watermarks the image (ChillCam has this functionality).

FRAPS hooks into the DirectX API and at a very low level, the webcam API is part of that.

03-01-2005, 07:14 AM	#7 (permalink)
trache Insane	AFAIK, if one process has control of the webcam itself, for example, the Logitech software for QuickCams, nothing else can use the camera (locally). Try this yourself. Start using your webcam with any software and then try to open another program that uses the webcam. Only one will be able to connect. If you are using the webcam over Yahoo! or MSN, then most definitely someone can take the image. This happens quite plainly because you cannot control what happens to the information once it is transmitted to the destination computer. If someone wants to write a piece of software that reads the information off of the Yahoo!/MSN communication (and it happens to be a webcam image) it is tough luck for you. The best you could do is not use it over the network or failing that, find webcam software that watermarks the image (ChillCam has this functionality). FRAPS hooks into the DirectX API and at a very low level, the webcam API is part of that. __________________ "You looked at me as if I was eating runny eggs in slow motion." - Gord Downie of The Tragically Hip Last edited by trache; 03-01-2005 at 07:17 AM..