[FWTools] gdal_translate mrsid encoding

[Frank Warmerdam]

On 10/18/05, Travis Kirstine GIS Tech <tkirstine at jdbarnes.com> wrote:
> Hi
> I've been using gdal_translate to subset 500m2 tifs with tfw files from a
> large overall MrSid image.  This process worked great however I'm running
> into problems converting these tif images back into mrsids using MrSid Geo
>
> error message "the file LT Stream is a non supported planar configuration
> type of 2.  Please convert image to baseline tiff and recompress"
>
> I then reran the gdal_translate command using the -co PROFILE=BASELINE but
> still received the same error message. I then compared tif images using
> gdalinfo of a tif subseted with PCI and one using gdal_translate and found
> the images were identical.  Any advice would be great

Travis,

Use the -co INTERLEAVE=PIXEL when producing your GeoTIFF.  I
will look into making this the default for PROFILE=BASELINE in the
future.

Best regards,
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