- Standalone setup and test of jukebox.
- Use Pioneer test tools such as 500UTIL.EXE to check out SCSI connection. See if CDROM drive can be accessed just like a regular Sun SCSI CD-ROM device or if drivers are required. If so, the CDROM loaded should look like a file system.
- Try out (e.g.) IXOS and SmartStorage software. Find out price, proceed to next step :-)
- Development of low-level function library for moving robotic loader by computer control.
- Determine if audio CDs can be read through the SCSI interface.
- Interface to RTSP server being built. If whole CD jukebox is not being mapped into a file system, enhance server to automatically select CD, buffer the desired audio/video file to local disk (since the CD runs at 4x speed). Implement caching to replace disk copies that have not been accessed recently.
- Write audio CD, ASF and/or QuickTime reader for RTSP server.
- Create an index so that if CDs are moved, the index can be updated automatically.
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