I am having some trouble instantiating a COM object, it seems to crash my web server every time I call the line. $tve=new COM("TVE3COM.TVE"); I have downloaded a trial version of the Turbo Video Engine SDK and this was a line I got from the php examples folder. Is anyone familiar with this SDK? I ran the installer which I guess would install the files in the correct location. Or do I need to have the DLL's in the same directory? I am very new to all of this. Thanks again, Nathan