[gdal-dev] What is the meaning of the message from gdalinfo

[Frank Warmerdam]

Mo Wang wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
>  
> 
> I ran gdalinfo (both gdal 1.5.2 and gdal 1.6.0) on a nitf image and got 
> the following message:
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>  
> 
> gdalinfo caf_08mar12.ntf
> 
> ERROR 4: ‘J2K_SUBFILE:3935,115450995,caf_08mar12.ntf’ does not exist in 
> the file system, and is not recognised as a supported dataset name.
> 
> ERROR 1: Unable to open JPEG2000 image within NITF file.
> 
> Is the JP2KAK driver available?
> 
> gdalinfo failed – unable to open ‘caf_08mar12.ntf’.
> 
>  
> 
> What is the meaning of the message (especially ERROR 4)? Thank you in 
> advance for taking time to answer.

Mo,

ERROR 4 maps to "CPLE_OpenFailed" as defined in gdal/port/cpl_error.h.

The error basically means that your NITF file contains a JPEG2000 compressed
image so the NITF driver attempted to open that as a subdataset using the
specal J2K_SUBFILE mechanism but this failed.  Mostly likely it failed
because you do not have JPEG2000 support built into your GDAL library.

Best regards,
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