[Freegis-list] batch read/convert Mr. Sid format

[Dallas Masters]

I received help from the GisTrans-L list pointing me to the DOS
executable "mrsiddecode.exe" on the Lizardtech site.  I successfully ran
it under "wine" on Linux to translate Mr. Sid files to other formats.  
It's extremely slow, but perhaps it would run faster under dosemu.

Regarding the format, does anyone know how infranview was able to write 
a viewer for this format?  Perhaps Lizardtech does give out the details 
of the format if you want to write support for Mr. Sid in GRASS or GDAL.

Dallas

On Fri, 14 Feb 2003, Jan-Oliver Wagner wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 03:01:59PM -0700, Dallas Masters wrote:
> > I have a set of Mr. Sid files that I would like to convert to something
> > more useful.  I don't think GDAL or any GRASS routine will read Mr. Sid,
> > so I'm left with LizardTech's free viewer (I'm using Linux, so
> > Infranview isn't an option).  The free viewer is an interactive process,
> > and I don't want to click my way through the long list of Mr. Sid files.  
> > Does anyone know of a better reader/converter for Mr. Sid files or a
> > Open Source code module that describes its format?  Thanks.
> 
> unfortunately, MrSid is a proprietary format.
> I am not aware of any Free Software implementation.
> 
> There was a thread on this problem here on this list
> a couple of months ago.
> 
> 	Jan
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Dallas

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Dallas Masters
Colorado Center for Astrodynamics Research
University of Colorado, Boulder
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