[Gdal-dev] converting ECW to MrSID

[Frank Warmerdam]

Bart van den Eijnden (OSGIS) wrote:
> Hi list,
> 
> I am trying to convert a large (56 Gb) ECW file on Red Hat Enterprise Linux
> 3 to MrSID.
> 
> After a while I run into a segfault. The size of the MrSID file at the time
> of the crash is 369 Mb. The machine has 4 Gb of memory. 
> 
> Version info:
> mrsid: 5.0.6
> ecw: 3.3RC2
> gdal: 1.3.2
> 
> Output from gdal_translate:
> 
> Input file size is 690000, 800000
> 0free(): invalid pointer 0x3abad2f1!
> 
> Any ideas on how to make this conversion work?

Bart,

I'd suggest upgrading to libecw 3.3 final.  I haven't run into this problem
myself.

I hope the MrSID compressor isn't burning off your "compressor cartridge"
money for failed compressions.

Best regards,
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