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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.