heya,
...after seeing the posts about ImageVert, I realized I hadn't tried it, so I did...only to find it crash! Well, now it works, but it's only RGBA right now...YUV on the way, which'll look different...;-)
...also made a major improvement in movie handling: OSX users can finally use metro/counter without a speed hit (it used to slow down the longer a long movie played), plus we can now scrub back and forth within a movie (or even get random frames)!!
l8r, jamie