[gdal-dev] Kakadu library and Component transform with GDAL

[Frank Warmerdam]

Dimitri Sarafinof wrote:
> Hello,
> 
>  
> 
> I’m working in the French National Geographic Institute on a project for 
> the French Ministry of Defence. The goal is to encode imagery in JPEG 2000.
> 
> We’re working with Kakadu library v6 (we’ve got a Commercial Enterprise 
> licence) and there’s no option to use the components transform (in 
> particular ICT) when it’s linked to GDAL. This option seems to be very 
> useful to compress RGB imagery and have better quality. It‘s recommended 
> to use it for RGB data but we can’t do it with GDAL. So we would to know 
> if this option is going to be implemented next wit

Dimitri,

Are you talking about encoding the actual image in a different color space,
like YCbCr?  I have no plans to implement this but I would certainly be
open to incorporating a patch that does this if you could come up with one.

Best regards,
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