[FFmpeg-user] Bounty: $250 make directshow capture inputs "user configurable"

[Roger Pack]

Hello all.
I've decided to offer a small bounty ($250) for any enterprising
developer interested in the following task:

Background:

ffmpeg can take dshow input, like
$ ffmpeg -f dshow -i video="USB2.0_Camera":audio="Microphone (USB
Audio Device)" output.mkv

However you can't specify "1280x1024 7.5fps"  (instead it chooses some
poor default like 640x480 10 fps).

So this would be a task to make this possible. Example open source
programs that do this apparently already: VLC, iSpy.

Extra credit if you can enumerate available dshow capture devices
(video+audio): $50
Extra credit if you can enumerate the options of a given capture source. $50
Extra credit if you can set options for audio: $50

Related thread:

>> When running the command line below, I get "Option video_size not found."
>> I've tried -video_size hd720, with no effect.
>>
>> How do you set the video size when using dshow? Thanks for any help you can
>> provide.
>>
>> ffmpeg -rtbufsize 100000000 -f dshow -s hd720 -i video="Microsoft LifeCam
>> Cinema" -vframes 1 test%06d.tif
>
> You can't yet it's not implemented, I believe (just looking at it, I
> think maybe it's using ConnectDirect to connect the pins, which just
> always choose some default).