[QGIS-trac] Re: [Quantum GIS] #996: r

[Quantum GIS]

#996: r
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        Reporter:  coatman                           |         Owner:  nobody       
            Type:  defect                            |        Status:  reopened     
        Priority:  major: does not work as expected  |     Milestone:  Version 1.0.0
       Component:  Rasters                           |       Version:  HEAD         
      Resolution:                                    |      Keywords:               
Platform_version:                                    |      Platform:  OS X         
        Must_fix:  Yes                               |   Status_info:  0            
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Changes (by Coatman):

  * summary:  QGIS corrupts JPEG2000 colors => r

Comment:

 The person who was working on GeoJasPer ceased development 3 years ago.
 Kakadu continues to be maintained, updated, and enhanced. Kakadu supports
 hardware acceleration via Intel SSE, and via multiple processors and
 multiple cores. As a practical matter, Kakadu is an order of magnitude
 faster than GeoJasPer and requires an order of magnitude less memory than
 GeoJasPer. It is because GeoJasPer was completely free and Kakadu charges
 a small amount that we have the current situation. GDAL (Frank Warmerdam)
 has supported Kakadu for 5 years.  QGIS version 0.8.0 properly displayed
 JPEG2000 images via GeoJasPer and Kakadu! I am simply trying to suggest
 that we return this functionality to QGIS. The cost of the Kakadu source
 code for use in the non-commercial QGIS is less than the cost an Adobe
 Photoshop upgrade. I have offered to pay the cost of an additional Kakadu
 license for the person who would include in QGIS Kakadu's support for
 hardware acceleration.

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Ticket URL: <https://trac.osgeo.org/qgis/ticket/996#comment:21>
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