Thank you Larry, that makes a lot of sense. I will stick with oiiotool in
that case, it will get the job done.
On Mon, Apr 9, 2018, 22:35 Larry Gritz, <l...@larrygritz.com> wrote:
> The easy way to do it from Python is to load it as an ImageBuf, use
> ImageBufAlgo.channels() to copy just the channels you want to a second
> ImageBuf, then save it. Basically:
>
> inbuf = ImageBuf ("allchannels.exr")
> outbuf = ImageBuf()
> ImageBufAlgo.channels (outbuf, inbuf, ("R", "G", "B"))
> outbuf.write ("justRGB.exr")
>
> I would expect that to be the same speed as oiiotool, since that's what's
> going on under the covers anyway (the oiiotool may still beat it, because
> it's pretty well tuned with all the options, has pretty good thread
> management, and no Python overhead at all).
>
> I think that basic path (read, IBA::channels(), write) is about the best
> you're going to do using only the OIIO APIs.
>
> There are ways (in the underlying libIlmImf, but not exposed by OIIO) that
> you can read uncompressed chunks, but if what you're after is to extract
> only certain channels, the data for those channels are scattered around
> variously within the compressed block. So I don't see how you could do it
> without uncompressing the whole chunk, copying out the individual channels
> you want, and then re-compressing. Which is basically what
> oiiotool/channels() is doing. I doubt you could make it substantially
> faster without getting extremely clever and low level with your own
> compression code.
>
> -- lg
>
>
> On Apr 9, 2018, at 4:35 PM, Yegor Swarovski <yego...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello, just a simple question - I want to use OpenImageIO to open an image
> file, strip out all but a few channels, and save it again. I have found how
> to do this with oiiotool's -ch flag but I am curious to try this with the
> OpenImageIO in python and see if that has some faster performance.
>
> My question is whether this is possible to do without touching any actual
> pixel data - I am not sure how EXRs are stored or compress data so I am not
> sure if it is possible to simply open an ImageInput or ImageBuf, delete
> some channels, and save it again, or if I will need to start copying
> pixels/image data to a second ImageBuf.
>
> Thanks!
>
>
> --
> Larry Gritz
> l...@larrygritz.com
>
>
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