@Kroll

mplayer's FIFO may do what you want, but, IMHO, a nicer solution would be adding D-Bus support to Quasar so that it can be remote controlled I'll look into it after I've got Scratchbox set up again (distro-hopping ATM)

@K9999

You should find nicolai and thank him instead; he wrote a replacement applet for the N900 first; I took his drawing code afterwards and used it to make one for the N8X0. Thanks anyway!