he peoples, i've been loosely monitoring your efforts in (re-)creating the MediaKit, and you make more progress than i thought. :) keep up the good work. i thought you might be interested in my latest semi-release. it's not on BeBits (yet), but available from my homepage, its called "libFMedia" and is basically an abstraction layer to make developing new media nodes much much easier. it uses almost any aspect of the mediakit, so it might be of use in testing when you reached some level of completeness. you can have a look on http://f3c.com/software/FMedia/ it's open-source, under no particular license yet, i guess i'll put it under GPL. i have been asked by some of yous to write down my wishes/suggestions for the new implementation of the kit. but, quite frankly, it is quite allright. some things i found in the wiki are true (B_PHYSICAL_INPUT), and the mediakit is generally a relatively complex thing compared to the other be stuff. but this complexity brings also flexibility and thats what we want, eh? and- some abstraction layer can provide for the easiness :) so. if you make it it will be a dream come true for me and i will definitely continue my dev efforts on mediacontrol, libFMedia and the nodes for ever. i must admit , though, that i am currently investigating the possibilities to create a similar (yet much simpler) structure on a portable base, just to be independent of any proprietary OS manufacturer selling out. i guess i will release most of my working nodes in the next weeks as open source. you will also notice on BeBits, but might want to watch f3c.com/software/FMedia if you want to be on the edge :) again, keep up the progress. i hope hope hope you will do it. all the best to all BeLievers, -dan --- dan-at-f3c-dot-com http-colon-slashslash-f3c-dot-com-slash-dan