# llimphi-reproductor > Plays an `EscenaWire` that arrived over the cable onto the **host's** canvas — `vello` > on Linux, `vello_cpu` in wawa — and measures text with the native shaper. Text deliberately does not cross the wire: measuring a string is a question that the *other* side of the border answers, and a synthetic measurer would make the test lie. So the caged app sends what to draw, and the host, which owns the fonts, decides how wide it is. Its counterpart is `llimphi-jaula` (who composes) and `llimphi-cable` (who transports). --- Part of **llimphi** — see [llimphi](../README.md) and the widget/module catalogue in [`MANUAL.md`](../MANUAL.md).