[gdal-dev] ECW JPEG2000 SDK v5.0 now available

[William Kyngesburye]

Bummer, still no OS X support.

On Jul 14, 2013, at 10:35 PM, Tweedie, Chris wrote:

> Hi list,
> 
> Due to overwhelming interest from GDAL-ers I have cross posted the announcement here. For general SDK questions please post to http://geospatial.intergraph.com/Community/forums/27.aspx
> 
> SDK v5.0 is now available for download @ http://geospatial.intergraph.com/products/other/ecw/ERDASECWJPEG2000SDK/Downloads.aspx
> 
> Highlights include,
> 
> . Linux platform support
> . Visual Studio 2012 support (VC110)
> . Removed TBB dependency
> . Static and dynamic library support
> . ECW v3 format
> - uint16 support
> - null blocks to optimally store and compress imagery with vast no-data or null areas
> - improved metadata support, statistics, histogram, RPC native storage
> . Improved image quality for ECW files (decoder only)
> . Vast improvements to the JPEG2000 decoder in terms of performance and compatibility
> . Significant encoding performance improvements
> . Full unicode support
> . Improved examples for encoding and decoding
> . Now a single unified library, NCSEcw (.dll / .so)
> 
> We are sure it was worth the wait, but let me know if you disagree :-)
> 
> Chris
> 
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