From: Michael R. <mr...@us...> - 2004-03-03 15:04:26
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Hi all, Sorry for being late in this discussion. > > > I don't think there's really need for use of the security stuff, or > > > blocking this part of the code if we're not allowed to save, because > > > this sort of thing is already possible (with a similar level of > > > quality) on full-duplex sound cards, or cards with digital outputs. > > > > And because it's about a three-line hack to the 'none' driver to do it > > anyway? > > I agree with Bastien that we shouldn't be overzealous about security > when saving sound as wav. As you pointed, there will be always other > ways of doing it and this is a pretty useful feature anyway. On one hand, I am all for this feature, but on the other hand I feel I should point this out: > On Wed, 2003-05-21 at 18:47, Thibaut Mattern wrote: > > I've just modified the http input plugin to use a winamp user agent when > > the url ends with ".nsv". [...] > You'll soon be able to remove the work-around, Justin Frankel from > Nullsoft has agreed to add "xine/..." to the user-agent whitelist[1]. [...] > [1]: That's if xine doesn't allow users to save the streams on the disk. Any opinions? Michael -- "... one of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that, lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C programs." -Robert Firth |