[Qgis-developer] Problem with GDAL formats as plugins

[Steve Halasz]

I've created a bug for this:
https://svn.qgis.org/trac/ticket/182

Steve

On 7/7/06, woklist at kyngchaos.com <woklist at kyngchaos.com> wrote:
> (This is a clarification on Greg's message in the qgis-user list)
>
> I have a few formats in my GDAL built as GDAL plugins, for various
> reasons.  This includes GRASS (raster and vector), JasPer JP2, MrSID, and
> a new Kakadu JP2 plugin.  With all these enabled, when adding a raster,
> there are many JPEG2000 choices, and all except the first have the same
> menu text so I can't tell which is which.
>
> JPEG-2000 part 1 (*.jp2 *.JP2)
> JPEG 2000 (*.jp2 *.j2k *.JP2 *.J2K)
> JPEG 2000 (*.jp2 *.j2k *.JP2 *.J2K)
> MrSID [not the actual text, I just shortened it here]
> JPEG 2000 (*.jp2 *.j2k *.JP2 *.J2K)
> JPEG 2000 (*.jp2 *.j2k *.JP2 *.J2K)
>
> Disable MrSid and that drops to:
>
> JPEG-2000 part 1 (*.jp2 *.JP2)
> JPEG 2000 (*.jp2 *.j2k *.JP2 *.J2K)
> JPEG 2000 (*.jp2 *.j2k *.JP2 *.J2K)
>
> Disable Kakadu (just JasPer now), and the same 3 choices are available.
> Disable JasPer and enable just Kakadu, now there are no JP2 choices to
> load rasters.  Enable just the MrSID plugin, and the MrSID and 2 JPEG 2000
> items are available.
>
> Why is Qgis ignoring the Kakadu GDAL driver?  I can't try this with Kakadu
> built into GDAL, only as plugin.  The GDAL programs see and can use the
> Kakadu driver plugin just fine.  Since only a few of the available GDAL
> formats are available in Qgis, it must be something programmed into Qgis?
>
> Why are all JP2 drivers shown (and with multiple menu items for each)?
> The only way I know of to choose an *input* format driver in GDAL is to
> set the GDAL_SKIP environment var to tell GDAL to ignore drivers.  But
> maybe there is a way when using the libraries?
>
>
> This is with my Qgis Mac Universal build of 0.8 preview.  Happens both on
> PPC and Intel Macs.
>
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