VideoInputFormat is used to read video files stored in HDFS.
Supported Video Types
The following video formats are supported:
Behavior
- Reads video files directly from HDFS
- Each video file is treated as a single record
- The video content is loaded as a video object that can be processed frame by frame
- Typically used together with video and image processing transformations (e.g., frame extraction, similarity calculation)
Typical Use Cases
- Video analytics and batch video processing
- Extracting image frames from videos
- Performing face or image similarity analysis on video content
