[jira] [Commented] (PIG-2948) Add multimedia support to Pig: types for images, audio, video common document formats and accompanying internal-UDFs

["Jonathan Coveney (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Jonathan Coveney commented on PIG-2948:
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Russell,

I'm curious what you have in mind here. What is gained from having a specific type for these things that you couldn't do by passing around bytearrays (besides the cost of serialization)?
                
> Add multimedia support to Pig: types for images, audio, video common document formats and accompanying internal-UDFs
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: PIG-2948
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-2948
>             Project: Pig
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: data, documentation, e2e harness, grunt, impl, internal-udfs, parser, piggybank, tools
>         Environment: Pie in the Sky.
> Inside my head. Someone mentioned this last evening and I decided to JIRA it.
>            Reporter: Russell Jurney
>            Assignee: Russell Jurney
>            Priority: Minor
>
> Pig should have support for multimedia: images, audio, video, common document formats. By continuing to add additional types, Pig can outpace other tools.
> Ideally a java-based library that can already handle these formats would be used to transform them to Pig relations.

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