The following issues need to be resolved for the Burnstation Prototype

Will the prototype produce only DVD ISOs

• The Burnstation requirements call for the system to produce DVDs or VCDs
• The current prototype design talks about DVD ISOs and VOB files
• Will the prototype be able to produce a VCD?
• Will VOBs be suitable for VCDs?

When to produce VOB files

• The current design has the transcode daemon system producing VOB files for every video in a Plumi system
• The benefit of doing this is that it means that when a DVD ISO is being assembled by the Burnstation system, there's no need to encode VOBs, making it faster.
• The problems with this approach are:
  • This will slow down transcoding of multiple videos (more work for it to do before it can get the Flash files produced if there's many videos in the queue)
  • This will consume more disk space on the Plumi server as many videos may be uploaded that are never burnt to disks
  • If the eventual system is to produce DVDs or VCDs, will VOBs be suitable for a VCD ISO? (see issue above re: prototype producing VCDs as well as DVDs)

Will this be tested in Indonesia?

• Will this system be tested at one of the Local Archive systems in Indonesia?
• If not, how we will verify that the prototype is working correctly? On demo.plumi.org?