[Rawstudio-dev] alternative library for decoding raw formats

[Lutz!]

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Hi everybody,
I'm new and I'm still looking at the svn code for the first time, I read
as much as possible about raw-library you were talking about...

I've a question, just to understand if "it's possibile to have...?". Do
u think it could be useful/possible a "Raw library to use..." selector
in the option panel ? I think that we'll never have a perfect
raw-library for all possible formats, maybe, in the future, each library
will be optimized and tested only for some formats...

Let me know...





Anders Brander wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Sat, 2009-02-28 at 00:10 +0100, Gianluca Sforna wrote:
>> while looking for a fix on the build problem I wrote about earlier, I
>> found out this project:
>>
>> http://libopenraw.freedesktop.org
>>
>> which is on paper a nice alternative to the current decoding code
>> which is AFAIK brought from another project (ufraw?) which in turn got
>> it from a third one (dcraw)
>>
>> What do you think?
> 
> Well.
> 
> dcraw and glue code from ufraw is working pretty solid.
> 
> The idea behind libopenraw is the right one, I have considered
> contributing to the project multiple times, but I'm not really much of a
> C++ guy, so I ended up getting lost in the code every time :(
> 
> At the moment there already exists a plugin for Rawstudio that uses
> libopenraw - but for now libopenraw cannot replace dcraw simply because
> of limited camera support in libopenraw. I believe Hubert Figuiere, the
> author of libopenraw, follows this list too. Maybe you would like to
> chime in Hub?
> 
> If we would like to use a library, but keep dcraws wide support for
> cameras, there's LibRaw which is a rewrite of dcraw to behave like a
> proper library. I don't know much about this project.
> They have a nice site here: http://www.libraw.org/
> 
> Then there's kdcraw by Caulier Gilles - I don't know much about that,
> but I _think_ it's a KDE/qt-inspired wrapper around dcraw. But I haven't
> really looked at it.
> 
> Another possibility would be RawSpeed - not mature at the moment, but it
> shows great promises. RawSpeed too doesn't support half the formats that
> dcraw does, but it has other interesting aspects.
> 
> There's a short presentation of RawSpeed here:
> http://sh0dan.blogspot.com/2009/02/introducing-rawspeed.html
> - I'm pretty sure that Klaus Post, the author of RawSpeed, is following
> this list too. You're welcome to chime in as well Klaus.
> 
> The short answer is: I think we could use anything to load raw images
> with fallback to dcraw if the loader doesn't support it. Rawstudio
> already supports multiple loaders with fallback.
> 
> /abrander
> 
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