in reply to Saving the first frame of any image

# remove all the junk in our filename $filename =~ s/^.*[\\\/]//;
Does not remove all the junk in your filename (you should be using taint, perldoc perlsec). This still has potential for abuse. Adding something like
$filename = pack 'H*', $filename;
after that substitution ought to remedy that.

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