Why us a cd-player am working on similar project but using cdrom ide to play
disc's
just got the thing playing disc are you interested?
----- Original Message -----
From: David Duffy <AVD@UQ.NET.AU>
To: <PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
Sent: Monday, March 20, 2000 08:06
Subject: Pioneer/Sony CD serial data


> Hi everyone,
> I was wondering if anyone had ever tried to decode the internal
> serial data streams in either Sony or Pioneer CD players?
> Either the subcode (?) from the EFM decoder of maybe the one
> from the SYSCON unit. What I want to do is determine the track
> number that is currently playing & player status. It should be do-
> able with a PIC but I'm not sure of the best way to start. There is
> a clock & data line from the SYSCON to the SERVO chip which
> has activity on it most of the time.
> Regards...
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