What is meant by real-time vs. playback production?
Real-time production refers to the situation where the data stream is being converted into IDFS data sets as the data is being captured (telemetered down to the ground). Playback production refers to the situation where the data stream is converted into IDFS data sets after the data has been captured and assembled into some pre-defined format.Another way to say this is that playback production is the production of IDFS files from an input data file which already exists whereas real-time production is the production of IDFS files from an input data file which is simultaneously being created.
