Thanks
Do you have any pointers to how you would normally approach this? Is
Hadoop Streaming the solution I am looking for?
Many thanks again.
Roland
> -Original Message-
> From: Ted Dunning [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: 22. april 2008 22:54
> To: core-user@hadoop.apache.org
> Subject: Re: Can Hadoop process pictures and videos?
>
>
> Yes you can.
>
> One issue is typically that linux based video codecs are not as
> numberous as
> windows based codecs so you may be a bit limited as to what kinds of
> video
> you can process.
>
> Also, most video processing and transcoding is embarrassingly parallel
> at
> the file level with little need for map-reduce. That may make hadoop
> less
> useful than it might otherwise be. On the other hand, hadoop does
> expose
> URL's from which you can read file data so you might be just as happy
> using
> that.
>
>
> On 4/22/08 1:48 PM, "Roland Rabben" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> > Hi
> >
> > Sorry for my ignorance, but I am trying to understand if I can use
> > Hadoop and Map/Reduce to process video files and images. Encoding
and
> > transcoding videos is an example of what I would like to do.
> >
> >
> >
> > Thank you for your patience.
> >
> >
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Roland
> >
