[Gdal-dev] read RLE BIL with GDAL?

[Thom DeCarlo]

Frank,
I don't have the right computers any more, but way back in the days of
yore... when I used to work on SGI hardware, there were example programs
that I think were part of the Image library. One of these was a
reader/writer for SGI's rgb image files in RLE format. Maybe there's someone
among the GDAL users that has access to those example files.

FWIW,
Thom

Thom DeCarlo
Sr. S/W Eng, VisSim
Team ConITS - AvSP - LaRC - NASA

-----Original Message-----
From: Frank Warmerdam
Sent: Friday, January 09, 2004 5:19 PM
To: gdal-dev at remotesensing.org
Subject: Re: [Gdal-dev] read RLE BIL with GDAL?

Brent Fraser wrote:
> I've got some 8-bit Run-Length-Encoded BIL files I'd like to display
> (using Mapserver with the GDAL libraries).
>
> Is there a way to have GDAL read them using GDAL's current list of
> formats?  I can make HDR (or other header files) if you could give me a
> few pointers...
>
> I'd rather not do an intermediate translation to tiff if I can avoid it
> as they are being updated on an occasional basis.  I could modify the
> software that creates these files to create tiffs instead, but I'd
> prefer a "quick" way to have GDAL read them.

Brent,

I'm afraid I don't have any code for reading the RLE format, nor do I know
the
details of it to implement such support.

No help here ...

Best regards,