With Wiretap and the Wiretap Gateway, Lustre can read compressed media file types that are otherwise not natively supported. For example, users can access soft-imported formats, such as Quicktime®, over the network because the Wiretap Server converts the media on-the-fly without Lustre having to decode the files.
Lustre supports compressed media through Wiretap. The following compressed file formats are converted on-the-fly by the Wiretap Server:
For a list of Lustre-supported native file formats, see Accessing the File Browser.