[Gdal-dev] Kakadu Driver Dynamic Creation

[Frank Warmerdam]

Julien Demaria wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I need dynamic creation for the Kakadu driver...
> Are there any plans to implement it, or any existing contributions which 
> partially implement this ?
> I don't know exactly if this is a complex or easy work and the time 
> required to implement this...
> (I've rapidly walked on the driver code and this doesn't seam very 
> hard... but maybe I'm wrong ? I think the createcopy method code seams 
> to be a good starting point...)
> 
> Thanks in advance (all advices are welcome),

Julien,

As far as I know, it is not possible to do proper dynamic creation of
JPEG2000 files via Kakadu.  Basically, the data needs to be written scanline
by scanline - something which a dynamically created file can't ensure will
happen.

Best regards,

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