[Qgis-user] Re: ecw problems

[Giovanni Manghi]

This is a screencast with the steps

http://ubuntuone.com/p/12sy/

cheers

-- Giovanni --


On Fri, 2011-12-02 at 01:31 -0800, pieri70 wrote:
> Dear all
> I face the same problem, ECW data not supported...
> 
> I tried both on a WinXP workstation and on a Netbook with W/ onboard.
> 
> Installed Qgis 1.7.2 trough "osgeo4w-setup", with gdal-ecw 1.8.0.1.
> 
> My qgis.bat says:
> 
> "@echo off
> 
> SET OSGEO4W_ROOT=d:\OSGeo4W
> call "%OSGEO4W_ROOT%"\bin\o4w_env.bat
> call "%OSGEO4W_ROOT%"\apps\grass\grass-6.4.2RC2\etc\env.bat
> @echo off
> SET GDAL_DRIVER_PATH=%OSGEO4W_ROOT%\bin\gdalplugins\1.8
> path
> %PATH%;%OSGEO4W_ROOT%\apps\qgis\bin;%OSGEO4W_ROOT%\apps\grass\grass-6.4.2RC2\lib
> start "Quantum GIS" /B "%OSGEO4W_ROOT%"\apps\qgis\bin\qgis.exe %*
> "
> 
> So the gdal environment path seems ok, right?
> I followed this link to set Qgis and ECW
> 
> http://planet.qgis.org/planet/tag/ecw/
> 
> I installed "ECWJP2SDKSetup_20100920.exe" (that is SDK 4.1 Read only) from
> ERDAS and tried to copy the 8 *.dll (found in "ERDAS\ERDAS ECW JPEG2000
> SDK\bin\vc90\win32") both in System32, or in D:\OSGeo4W\bin, or in
> d:\OSGeo4W\bin\gdalplugins\1.8.
> 
> Nothing to do, ECW isn't supported..
> 
> Yesterday, on the netbook, in a first installation I downloaded
> "ECWJP2SDKSetup_RO_20110303.exe", that is 4.2 version of the SDK-RO. At
> first I tried to open ECW and QGis started working but in a wait state.
> I stopped it and tried to open a smaller ecw and it displayed it, but after
> a while it crashed.
> So I realized that it was needed the 4.1 version of ECW-SDK and I used it.
> By that point nothing to do, no compatibility..
> 
> In what am I wrong?
> 
> Thankyou
> Pietro
> 
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