[Qgis-user] Seems impossible to open ecw

[Jürgen E. Fischer]

Moin Michael,

On Wed, 19. Jan 2011 at 15:33:23 +0100, Michael Weninger wrote:
> I am not able to read ecw data qgis:
> I have installed the qgis 1.6 with the newest libs with  
> osgeo4w-setup.exe on windows server 2008 R2 Enterprise 64bit
> I have installed the erdas ECW SDK and copied the dll's to all the  
> folder like discribed in net (System32, SysWOW64, QGIS/bin,...)

> But it still doesn't work. When i open an ecw this message appears:  
> "Nicht unterstütztes Datenformat, Pfad.ecw ist keine unterstützte  
> Rasterdatenquelle."
> in English with my words: "path.ecw is not a supported raster data source"

You also need to install gdal17-ecw.   If you already did, does "gdalinfo
--formats" in the OSGeo4W shell (after running gdal17) any errors (and no ECW)?


Jürgen

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