I've been toying with the idea of creating a webtv'ish toy from scratch that could incorporate a lot (if not all) of the features of a tivo as well and probably extend upon it a great deal.

Having a fairly good deal of experience with perl, but a lack of experience with perl on a windows system I need to know what if any options there are for controlling programs through perl. I know in C/C++ I'd probably try and latch into a program through OCX or similar controls and I know perl offers this kind of fuctionality.

Assuming this isn't a valid option (or just that I can't figure it out) in what other ways are there that I could control a program. Does perl allow for macro type control over programs.

On the other hand maybe I should just stick with linux and see if I can find an mpeg4 software compression program and see if there isn't the divx :) codec for linux.

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