[gdal-dev] Re: gdaladdo creates very large files in 1.8 but not trunk

[Jukka Rahkonen]

Eli Adam <EAdam <at> co.lincoln.or.us> writes:


> 
> It works (at least in OpenEV it displays quickly like it is using overviews),
except the file sizes for the
> overviews seem odd and too large.    

Hi,

You can check which kind of overview file you really have with gdalinfo if you
first rename the .ovr file to something.tif. Gdalinfo then shows the compression
method used and sizes of overviews.  No need to do guessing with OpenEV.

-Jukka Rahkonen-