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 > >
