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

[Jean-Claude Repetto]

Le 18/10/2010 11:26, Agustin Lobo a écrit :
> Unfortunately, having to deal with ECW is not a matter of being maniacs
> of proprietary formats but of many useful free geoinformation provided in
> ECW format. Actually, not having ECW (or mrsid) support can be a cause
> of not using qgis at all.
>
> What about designing a separate external tool that would use gdal 1.6
> for a fast conversion
> of ECW to a fully gdal 1.7 supported compressed format? This would be
> a temporary solution while
> gdal finds a better solution for ECW support (best) or while ECW is
> dropped by producers
> of public geodata.

What format would you suggest to replace ECW  ? JPEG2000 ? Is OpenJPEG 
mature enough ?