Configure ffdshow

[Patrick-Mav]

Hi there,

I might be too blind or too stupid, but I cannot get the ffdshow plugin to work the way I need it to. I just want to call up the ffdshow configuration screen during playback, so that I can play around with the settings and see the results in realtime.
How do I do that?
Thanks and best regards
Patrick

[jitterjames]

the plugin doesn't work that way, it only allows you to set or get ffdshow settings.

if you want to bring up an ffdshow dialog, it is probably possible to do it using mouse or keyboard emulation, depending on what program you are using

you can open the video config like any other program, but I'm not sure how it will affect the currently running program. you might have to close and restart for changes to take effect.

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<EventGhost Version="1436">
    <Action>
        System.Execute(u'C:\\Windows\\System32\\rundll32.exe ', u'ffdshow.ax,configure', 0, False, 2, u'C:\\Program Files\\ffdshow')
    </Action>
</EventGhost>

[Patrick-Mav]

Hi jitterjames,
thanks, that gets me closer to a solution. Problem is, that I can call the configuration with that method, but the running playback doesn't reflect the changes I make in realtime, only after restart. This is different to when I just doubleclick on the ffdshow icon in systray, which brings the same configuration menu on top, but now it is also directly influencing the running playback.

Unfortunately, I do not know how to do this (doubleclicking on a systray icon in the background) programatically. Any advice?
Thanks again.
Patrick

[jitterjames]

perhaps you can trigger the notification icon with the EG action: Window >> Find a window?

also, what player are you using. for example with MPC you can access the ffdshow settings by right-clicking on the movie. Perhaps there is something similar you can do with your player.

depending on what settings you want to change, it may still make sense to use the ffdshow plugin. What are you trying to accomplish?

[Patrick-Mav]

Good to see, that you understood my problem. Of course I know about rightclicking in MPC and going through the filter menu. Unfortunately, the player engine in MediaPortal does not grant this. And this is the frontend to my htpc, that I will keep on using. MediaPortal can use external players like MPC, but that kills the WAF somewhat.

I just played around with the window find function, but as long as ffdshow runs minimized, it stays invisible to EG.
Seems, I am really not going to solve this one.

Just had another thought: If MPC can do it, how does MPC do it? Can this be duplicated somehow? Any idea?
I am going to ask this there too.

rgds
Patrick