On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 8:22 PM, Quincey Koziol <[email protected]> wrote:
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> On Nov 24, 2012, at 8:59 PM, dashesy <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> 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:
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>>>> 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.
>>>
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>> Just curious, is this faster than packet table?
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>         Well, packet tables are designed for 1-D data, so it's a bit of an 
> apples-to-oranges comparison...

But I am using it for vector data of fixed length, data type can be
anything, like a 2D array representing an image.
Again this is a matter of choice, but I am more curious to know which
one is better for realtime tasks (requires less IO for example)

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