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

[MORREALE Jean Roc]

Le 18/10/2010 12:43, Jean-Claude Repetto a écrit :
> 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 ?

gdal 1.8 will feature an openjpeg driver, I didn't have time to test it 
but it supports stream and levels.