popup box to change ffdshow settings on the fly via remote

[reven]

wishlist or general? well hmm ok..

anyone know of a program that one could use to change the ffdshow settings on the fly using a remote? similar to onscreen display for normal tvs? like brightness, contrast, aspect ratios and all that. since ffdshow can handle all of this, it would be a system independant application and thus working with any media player. of course wouldnt work for xcard,mvp or 350, but who cares about those users.

its probably the easiest way to achieve this functionality, and perhaps could even handle a zoom like feature; who hasnt at one time or another wanted to zoom in on the tv, during the interesting parts . anyone know of an application like this, or anyone wanted to develop one. come on i cant be the only one who thinks this is a good idea.

yeah i know you can adjust the settings using ffdshow with a mouse, but i want to do it via the remote (not using girder) and have a tv onscreen display like interface (ie semi transparent etc).

so anybody konw anything? or got some free time and programming experience waht to take this on?


ps i wonder if sub would move this...... its kind of a wish, kind of general in the cusp.

[sub]

Unfortunately I wont be able to help you with this. ffdshow uses the GPL license which is incompatible with GB-PVR. If I was to use any ffdshow header files or anything in my code, I'd be obliged to also provide the source code to GB-PVR. This wont be happening.

[reven]

yeah i meant a third party app, thus being platform (well pvr ) independent, since well it doesnt need to be, just needs to alter the settings and look pretty, and work via a remote. which in theory shouldnt be that hard to do, and hopefully someone has already done this, just hoping someone new of a project or was/is bored and looking for a project to do.

[dottore]

well i think, the ffdshow settings are stored in xml or ini-files. those files could be altered from outside. then one would have to restart ffdshow and that's it. or just wait for the next movie to play ;-)

could be done as plugin or standalone application. just as an idea....

[reven]

i would prefer it to be automatic, like changing the contrast, brigthness, aspect ratio, etc on the fly. it should be possible...