howdee Thanks Aq for showing us the ace mplayer ascii output thingy, but we have= a=20 question - is it possible to get it to output the video through aalib, bu= t=20 using a textfile , i.e a document of some relevence to the video? We want to project some relevent text you see over some video we've got, = any=20 ideas appreciated :-) steve A2:RT