Per-video settings in per-video files (as XML)

[BorisQueue]

I'm sure this has been requested before, though I cannot seem to find it: I want all the per-instance settings (such as window location, aspect ratio, volume, brightness) to be exportable into XML file files that would be kept alongside the video files. I'm talking about every setting that is *not* retained as in the normal preferences, the settings that are per-instance and are currently lost when you exit VLC Media Player. For a given video, say "tony.avi", these settings would be written as an XML file, say "tony-settings.xml", which would be found and loaded whenever that video is played, e.g.:

<comment "Generated by VLC Media Player -- please do not edit this file"/>
<vlc-settings xml-format="1.0" created-by="1.0.4">
<volume 17/>
<window-size 640 480/>
<deinterlace "bob"/>
</vlc-settings>

This should not be too difficult to implement, and would be an enormous help to users.

[shanedk]

I agree; this would be a great feature, especially for Adjustments and Effects. If a video doesn't look or sound right, then adjusting, say, brightness and contrast and selecting the appropriate EQ for sound is preferable to reencoding, which would reduce quality; however, VLC currently has no way of remembering these settings. An xml file of the same name would solve this problem.