[Qgis-user] work with ECW file and custom CRS

[Andre Joost]

Am 24.10.12 11:43, schrieb Daniele Bonaposta:
> Hi to everyone!
> first of all: I'm Daniele, a new qgis user and I'm glad to belong to this
> list!
>
> I need to display some satellite images in ecw format, I've read that is
> possible from qgis 1.8 but It looks like isn't true, besides qgis 1.7.4
> on-line docs don't speaks about it... How I can display these images?
>

ECW support needs a special driver.
On Windows, you need the osgeo4w-setup for this, and select advanced 
install, View: full. There you find the package gdal-ecw. mark that and 
Qgis, to get a Qgis version with ECW support.

See also:
http://www.gdal.org/frmt_ecw.html
I'm not sure if you have to install the ECW SDK too.

HTH,
André Joost