[Qgis-user] ecw files

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I'm not sure if this is applicable, but does the ECW need compiled with
QGIS?

On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 11:55 AM, David Fawcett <david.fawcett at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I am running QGIS 0.10.0 on Windows and trying to get a large .ecw
> file to load.  Based on the documentation, it appears as though QGIS
> should support .ecw files.
>
> When I try to load the file, I get a warning dialog that says that the
> file 'is not a supported raster data source'.  gdalinfo is able to
> open it up using the 'ECW/ERMapper Compressed Wavelets' driver.
>
> Granted, this is a giant image (~27gb), but if it was a size issue, I
> would expect a crash instead of the warning.   Maybe I am just used to
> the expensive, proprietary stuff ; /
>
> Thanks,
>
> David.
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