Ahhhh great thank you Richard, that helped out a lot with getting started, and the video library link you provided helped too :)
Since then I have decided to take it a step further and use Osculator and GSVideo to control the video with a Wii remote.
I have managed to get quite far, but I am having a couple of issues, one of which involves a 'switch' which I thought you may be able to help with.
Here's a link to my new post if you have a chance to take a look please!
Thanks