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# Soft-Import Streaming Media Support

With Wiretap and the Wiretap Gateway, Lustre can read compressed media file types that are otherwise not natively supported. For example, users can access soft-imported formats, such as Quicktime®, over the network because the Wiretap Server converts the media on-the-fly without Lustre having to decode the files.

Lustre supports compressed media through Wiretap. The following compressed file formats are converted on-the-fly by the Wiretap Server:

Server | Soft-Import Streaming Media Support
--- | ---
Wiretap Server | Quicktime (no extension) Quicktime (.MOV/.mov) Media Exchange Format (.MXF/.mxf) Alias® (.als) Jpeg (.jpeg) Tdi/Maya® (.iff) Macintosh®Pict (.pict) Pixar (.picio) Softimage® (.pic) Wavefront® (.rla)
Wiretap Gateway Server | OpenEXR (including common compression schemes) RED (including both SDK 2.x and 3.x transcoding options) Quicktime MXF

NoteIt is also possible to work with compressed media outside of a Wiretap workflow. See Compressed Media Support.

For a list of Lustre-supported native file formats, see Accessing the File Browser.