Looks like we have some custom compression types I didn't know about that
are causing the fuss. OIIO is all good. Thanks for the help.

On Thu, Nov 17, 2022 at 11:32 AM Alex Suter <asu...@ilm.com> wrote:

> Hi, thanks for the response!
>
> Good call on the error check. It's reporting:
>
> err after ImageInput::create() failure was: Unsupported compression type
>
> Not sure what type it is yet, but that's an excellent clue.
>
> Sorry I was unclear on the message, I just found it in the code itself in
> the version (1.8.12) I'm upgrading from and thought it might be related,
> but it doesn't seem to be.
>
> bool
> DDSOutput::open (const std::string &name, const ImageSpec &userspec,
>                  OpenMode mode)
> {
>     error ("DDS writing is not supported yet, please poke Leszek in the "
>         "mailing list");
>     return false;
> }
>
>                -- Alex
>
> On Wed, Nov 16, 2022 at 6:02 PM Larry Gritz <l...@larrygritz.com> wrote:
>
>> We don't support DDS for output, it's true.
>>
>> I don't see that error message anywhere in the source code (either at the
>> current head, or at v2.3.16.0), so I'm not sure where that's coming from. I
>> can believe it was there at some point. Is that a message from the much
>> older OIIO version you are converting FROM?
>>
>> As far as the input, that call should work. What is the value of
>> inputFile?
>>
>> ImageInput::open() returns an open II, but ImageInput::create just
>> creates an II capable of being opened for that format -- i.e., it doesn't
>> try to open the file. So I'm curious as to what could be broken, unless
>> your OIIO is built with support for DDS disabled?
>>
>> After the failed
>>
>> OIIO::ImageInput::unique_ptr in = OIIO::ImageInput::create(inputFile);
>>
>> what happens with this:
>>
>>         if (! in) {
>>             std::string err = OIIO::geterror();
>>             std::cout << "err after ImageInput::create(" << inputFile <<
>> ") failure was: " << err << "\n";
>>         }
>>
>> Is that where you're seeing the message about Leszek? Or do you see a
>> different error message?
>>
>>
>> On Nov 16, 2022, at 5:29 PM, Alex Suter <asu...@ilm.com> wrote:
>>
>> Heya,
>>
>> Judging by the docs this isn't a preferred format, so I apologize.
>>
>> I'm upgrading some code from an older OIIO to 2.3.16 and the unit test
>> that reads in some example dds files is failing as:
>>
>>   OIIO::ImageInput::unique_ptr in = OIIO::ImageInput::create(inputFile);
>>
>> seems to return a nullptr. Other formats read fine. Looking at the header
>> ImageInput::create reports that it will return an empty pointer if the
>> required writer was not able to be created which might be what's happening.
>>
>> ddsoutput code says, "DDS writing is not supported yet, please poke
>> Leszek in the mailing list."
>>
>> I don't actually need DDS writing, but am I doing something wrong in the
>> create() call so as to get the nullptr in recent versions of OIIO? Or is
>> reading dds through the create interface ddeprecated and there's a better
>> way?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Alex
>>
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>>
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