Thanks Michael, yeah I was hoping I could work this out with little effort. Sometimes you just hope things will be easy.
But, yeah your right. Ill spend a bit of time working out exactly what I need when I am ready with a polished version.
By any chance, is there a site that currently has recent static builds of FFMPeg on all 3 main operations systems (or at least linux 32 and 64) already built? This way at least i can get a consistant version to use.
Thanks again Michael for your time.