[Qgis-user] Re: QGIS 1.5 Update for ECW/SID support crashes

[Ramon Andinach]

On 16/10/2010, at 18:52 , Giovanni Manghi wrote:

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>> On my old win laptop qgis (standalone install 1.5.0, on vista) handles all the vector data I can throw at it fine.
>> If I point it at an ecw, qgis just straight crashes. A windows dialog box appear saying "qgis.exe has stopped working". Most of my rasters are ecw.
>> Is this what yours did or is this a different problem?
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> This is weird:
> I have a 1.5 osgeo4w installation and it works just fine with ecws. You
> need to copy the dlls from the *old* sdk, but then it works just fine
> with no crashes at all.
> 
> If you copy the dlls from the sdk available now in the erdas site, ecw
> will not open. The gdal16-ecw plugin available in the osgeo4w installer
> was based in the old sdk. But still no crash in any case.

And that might be the difference. As this was my first go at Quantum, I took the standalone approach. This says it can do ECWs but in *my* case very rarely does.

I was going to have a go at the osgeo4w approach if I had time tomorrow.

-ramon.