[Gdal-dev] ECW Hanging

[Frank Warmerdam]

srweal wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm experiencing intermittent problems running the FWTools 2.2.6 version of
> GDAL, including ECW support.  

Steve,

Generally speaking, I have also had problems with the ECW support in
FWTools.  FWTools is built with a sort of custom copy of the ECW SDK
I hacked together a build for.  I think that may relate to the problem.

I would encourage you to try using OSGeo4W with the ECW plugin instead.
It uses the ECW SDK as distributed by Leica and hopefully will be more
stable.

   http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo4w/wiki/pkg-gdal-ecw

Also of possible interest, but unlikely related to your particular problem
is this bug I worked on just this week.

   http://trac.osgeo.org/mapserver/ticket/3245

Best regards,
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