WiretapCentral and Wiretap Gateway

Wiretap is a protocol that allows a client system to remotely browse, read, and write media and metadata from Creative Finishing applications. The Wiretap server ifffsWiretapServer is installed with Creative Finishing applications and runs independently of them.

Wiretap Central is a browser-based application that can:

• Access projects of a Creative Finishing workstation or other workstations on site, including clip libraries, and reels.
• Encode different types of media from Wiretap Central without having to interrupt creative work on the workstation. H264, Mpeg1, Mpeg2, Mpeg4, FLV, IPOD compatible files and a few other formats are available.

Wiretap Gateway is a Wiretap server that exposes any mounted standard filesystem as a Wiretap hierarchy of directories, files, and clip nodes, and streams them as raw RGB to local or remote Wiretap clients, such as WiretapCentral.

WiretapCentral, Wiretap Gateway, Backburner, Backburner Manager, and Backburner Monitor are installed by default on an Autodesk workstation. Some or all of the components may be installed on other hardware.