Glossary

The process which reads data from storage and distributes it to consumers.

The process which receives data from producer and processes it.

Common term for producer and consumers.

Mechanism which notifies the program about changes in the content of a directory or a file.

A consumer that computes the hash of received data blocks.

Concrete configuration of concrete producers and consumers used to perform a transfer of a single file. The same topology is usually reused for transferring many files.

(Abstract) file is an (ordered) sequence of bytes of fixed size, i.e., which does not grow during transfer.

Refers to the operating system's concept of a file comprising of path, allocated space on attached storage (usually disk), and a file handle (when open) that programs use to read and write data. OS files do not allow parallel reading and writing by the same program.

In QI context: media file from the recording device's magazine. For cameras, these files are huge (RAW format) and unsuitable for editing.

In QI context: original file transcoded to lower resolution, which makes it suitable for editing in e.g. Adobe Premiere.