If this is your first visit, be sure to check out the FAQ by clicking the link above. You may have to register before you can post: click the register link above to proceed. To start viewing messages, select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below. yes i looked at the above programs and they are not suitable,but thanks anyway. oldfart has also tried to decompile this file for me but to no avail. it seems there is very little out there to do this sort of thing and even less in the way of tutorials so we can learn how to do this. where and how do people learn on this subject ? where to programmer s,image writers and plugin writers gain their knowledge ? the really annoying thing here is that the original plugin for the dreambox is in the py form and so can easily be edited,its just the muppet who has hacked the plugin to make it work on the VU who has compiled it in the pyo form and it wasnt even his work to begin with. its the knowledge to do the above that i wish to gain,but until we can figure out how to decomplie these files,i and others cannot even begin to learn. the programs and the tutorials on how to do this must be out there as years ago i had a decomplied gbox 2.25 version and with that i was able to make all sorts of