Wow, you are a legend! Thank you so much for putting the time in to fix it!

Cheers,
Mark
On 15/08/2013 7:15 PM, "Larry Gritz" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Update: It turned out that it was a bit of an overhaul of DPXOutput to get
> it in shape to output subimage, but I dove in and did it last night.  I
> also found some bugs in the underlying implementation of libdpx.
>
> But I got success!  -- I can write multi-image DPX files, read them back
> correctly, as well as read the sample image you provided.  Whew!
>
> I left it late last night working, but with some cleanup left to do.  If I
> can get some of my real work out of the way first, I'll try to get a chance
> to tidy things up enough to send out a pull request today.  Tonight at the
> latest.
>
> -- lg
>
>
> On Aug 14, 2013, at 12:51 PM, Mark Boorer wrote:
>
> Hi Larry, It should contain an image with L and an image with R. The view
> of the plant in the center is also from a different camera in the R eye.
>
> I'm not sure if Nuke allows for subimages in DPX files, and I've never
> been able to view these images in Nuke. (They are able to be read by our
> own grading / playback software).
>
> It could be that our library is doing things wrong, but not having an
> alternative library to write a stereo DPX, I was unable to test it ;)
>
> To answer your previous question, your initial summation was correct. I am
> unable to read or write stereo DPX's with the OpenImageIO DPX plugin
> (assuming my stereo DPX is valid).
>
>
> Thanks!
> Mark
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 8:34 PM, Larry Gritz <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I loaded the image in Nuke, added a "SideBySide" node between the read
>> node and the viewer, and what I see in the preview window is side by side
>> images where they both have a big "L", neither has "R".
>>
>> Can you confirm?
>>
>>
>>
>> On Aug 14, 2013, at 12:18 PM, Larry Gritz wrote:
>>
>> Aha, I misunderstood.  I thought you meant that you could neither read
>> nor write.
>>
>> The underlying "libDPX" looks like it should support multiple image
>> elements (that's what DPX calls subimages) for both reading and writing.
>>
>> The dpxinput.cpp code looks like it supports reading multiple elements,
>> but although the test file you sent is reported as having two elements,
>> they both look the same (with an "L", I presume the other is intended to
>> have "R"?). I don't yet know if that is because we have a bug, or because
>> your file has two identical elements. Can you verify on your end? Do you
>> have an app that can view the two subimages and be sure that they are
>> actually different?
>>
>> The dpxoutput.cpp is, indeed, written in such a way that it ignores the
>> possibility of multiple elements when writing the file, but I think it's a
>> pretty simple matter to fix it up. Let me take a stab at it.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Aug 14, 2013, at 11:09 AM, Mark Boorer wrote:
>>
>> Thanks again Larry,
>>
>> Just confirming though, this is for reading sub image DPX's. The writing
>> is still very much unimplemented?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Mark
>> On 14/08/2013 6:30 PM, "Larry Gritz" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks for the test case.  I briefly glanced at the code yesterday, and
>>> it's structured as if it expects subimages to work in the DPX code.  So
>>> it's probably just a bug, not a case of it being written without
>>> considering subimages at all and needs a total rewrite.  I'll try to take a
>>> quick look and see if it's something obvious, I'll let you know what I find.
>>>
>>> -- lg
>>>
>>>
>>> On Aug 14, 2013, at 1:34 AM, Mark Boorer wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Larry,
>>>
>>> Thanks for your quick reply and willingness to take a look.
>>> I've attached an example file (its a test plate so no copyright issues).
>>> It was written using an internal, quite old library, and is fine for
>>> reading back by said library (it also seems okay in RV). I'm looking to
>>> transition new code over to OIIO, so as I mentioned, if you don't have time
>>> to tinker with it, I'm happy to take a stab :)
>>>
>>> File can be downloaded from here:
>>>
>>> https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B7tMukhco9MwVjZWa09ZWW04Vm8/edit?usp=sharing
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>> Mark
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 8:20 PM, Larry Gritz <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Nobody is working on it as far as I know.  We use the DPX support
>>>> extensively here, but I think our convention is to save L & R as separate
>>>> images, so it hadn't been brought to my attention that our DPX subimage
>>>> support was lacking.  A fix for that would be very welcome.
>>>>
>>>> But before you dive in too deep... if you want to send me (privately is
>>>> ok, I won't share) one of these stereo DPX files, I would be happy to take
>>>> a *quick* look at the DPX code -- which I didn't write, but am at least
>>>> passingly familiar with -- just to see if it's an extremely minor
>>>> alteration (or even an obvious bug) to fix subimages, and if so I can just
>>>> bang it out.  But if it's more extensive, I'll let you know because if I
>>>> don't know immediately how to do it, you'll probably get a fix faster if
>>>> you are able to do it yourself rather than wait for me to free up a bigger
>>>> block of time.
>>>>
>>>>         -- lg
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Aug 13, 2013, at 11:50 AM, Mark Boorer wrote:
>>>>
>>>> > Hi,
>>>> >
>>>> > I'm looking to read/write some stereo DPX files I have, and I noticed
>>>> > that the DPXOutput class explicitly does not support subimages.
>>>> > I've also tried reading some files that contain subimages (written
>>>> > from a custom library), but I'm unable to get the data out of them
>>>> > after calling seek_subimage() (though the seek call works as
>>>> > expected).
>>>> >
>>>> > Is anyone presently working on supporting subimages in the DPX writer?
>>>> > I'm not too familiar with the guts of the format, but I do have access
>>>> > to the spec and may be motivated to add support.
>>>> >
>>>> > Cheers,
>>>> > Mark
>>>> >
>>>>
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