On Nov 24, 2012, at 8:59 PM, dashesy <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 6:33 PM, Quincey Koziol <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hi Nils,
>> 
>> On Nov 22, 2012, at 1:39 AM, ceratos <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> Maybe for clarification:
>>> What I really want is to save the frames (one group with different images
>>> and metadata) continuously in one hdf5.
>>> At the beginning I create only one file without a frame. Continuously the
>>> frames arrive and I want to append them to the file.
>>> 
>>> Maybe there are other structures or strategy in HDF to store this?
>> 
>>        You could create a 3-D chunked dataset with an unlimited dimension 
>> and store each frame as a new "slice" in the Z direction.
>> 
> 
> Just curious, is this faster than packet table?

        Well, packet tables are designed for 1-D data, so it's a bit of an 
apples-to-oranges comparison...

                Quincey


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