Jamie Lokier wrote:
> On my video player, the control program just runs the media player in
> a child process and talks over a pipe to it, in simple text commands.
> So the control program can be in any language, in theory.

<small>
This is also quite handy when the codec crashes or gets stuck...
the control program doesn't crash, it just kills the media program
and starts another...
</small>

-- Jamie
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