Can anyone build this screensaver?

travisroy74 · 09-04-2007, 08:44 AM

I may end up with my 10" overhead monitor covering up my rear view mirror, I dont know yet. If it does, I had an idea. Using a rear view camera, I'd love to use a screensaver to see that camera view on the monitor. My reasons being obviously I want to be able to see whats behind me, but I dont want to manually have to turn that on and off. Using a screensaver would be an easy way to do that so that as soon as you grab the volume knob or track up/down the screen goes back to whatever front end you are using.

Until I get my screen location figured out I wont know for sure if I would need such a screensaver. Currently I'm experimenting with QCar on my iBook until i get my mini system's pieces all gathered. A module in QCar that allowed directly control of the "screensaver" would ROCK.

So..... anyone have any ideas on how feasible it would be to make the basic screensaver?

Okay, so a little research (why dont i ever do this before asking questions), i found this, so i'm thinking if I had a camera set up to put its image on a URL within the machine, this software appears to be able to view it, but I don't know how to do that, let alone do it as live video.

iamgnat · 09-04-2007, 09:07 AM

Grab a camera and take a look at the Security screen saver that comes with OSX (maybe only Intels?). For some reason it doesn't want to use the built-in iSight on my MBP though

-dave

Jirka Jirout · 09-04-2007, 10:42 AM

I think you can use the Quartz composer to build a screen saver that displays image from an attached camera. There should not be any need to integrate this with whatever front-end you are using unless you want to be able to immediately activate the screen saver based on some of the information or an event in the front end.

travisroy74 · 09-04-2007, 10:58 AM

The only reason that I could think of for integrating with a front end would be to easily disable the "rear view".

Thanks for the advice