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

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Open
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Component/s: 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.

• Assignee: Russell Jurney
• Reporter: Russell Jurney
• Due: 05/Jan/14
• Created: 05/Oct/12 22:08
• Updated: 06/Oct/12 02:14

Description

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.