[Qgis-user] Metis and creating pyramids

[Micha Silver]

I can't seem to create pyramids with 0.11. Neither on Windows nor on Ubuntu.


I'm working with some tif rasters, of about 160 MB each. They were 
originally jpeg, which I converted with gdal_translate. The jpegs load 
*very* slowly. They are about 10 MB, and it takes some 45 secs to load 
each image. After converting to three-band tiffs:

gdal_translate -of GTiff -co 'TILED=YES' file.jpg file.tif
I can load the tiff in about 15 secs.
(Just for comparison, the same 10MB jpeg images load in ArcMap in about 
5 secs, and the 160 MB tiff, after Arc creates their external pyramids, 
loads almost immediately...)
But when I try to create pyramids, it seems to be working for a while, 
then the process ends. But there is no change to the file, and if I 
reopen the properties window to the Pyramids tab, all pixel levels are 
still marked in red.
The tiff's are in my homedir so, yes, I have write access.

Can anyone else confirm this?

Thanks,
Micha