Activate MrSid support using Gdal - Ubuntu Feisty

[Steven De Vriendt]

Thanks for clearing that up Frank !
I will try to convert my image as you suggest, do you have any suggestions
of the format to use ? I have the experience when I try to convert my image
(±258mb) that it just blows up the size of the image into gigabytes...Thanks
for helping out !

Steven

On Dec 12, 2007 4:39 PM, Frank Warmerdam <warmerdam at pobox.com> wrote:

> Steven De Vriendt wrote:
> > Hi list,
> >
> > I have installed gdal-bin using the synaptic manager in ubuntu feisty.
> Yet,
> > when I try to use gdalinfo on my sid-file, I get a format unsupported
> > message.
> > How can activate mrsid support ?
>
> Steven,
>
> It is in theory possible to build the GDAL MrSID driver as a plugin and
> use
> it with your installed GDAL.  But this is tricky, and it will only work if
> there is a MrSID DSDK available that is compatible with the
> OS/architecture
> and compiler version your GDAL is built for.  If you want to pursue that
> path ... good luck.
>
> Alternatively, you could install FWTools and just use it for the specific
> translation of the mrsid's into something more generally useful.
>
>   http://fwtools.maptools.org/
>
> Because the MrSID DSDK is proprietary software, provided only in
> pre-compiled format it is challenging to offer it in free software
> distributions.
>
> Best regards,
> --
>
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