Its just how compression works. If some data is reduced in size then other has to grow in size. Try -co compress=deflate -co PREDICTOR=2

On 2011-06-15 19:43, Matt Wilkie wrote:
Hi Folks,

I've run into a strange thing, "gdal_translate -co compress=lzw" is
creating files that are larger than the source uncompressed image.

Input:

04/04/2006 08:39 AM 959,236,993 A1.tif

Results of "gdal_translate -co compress=[lzw,packbits,none]"

15/06/2011 10:35 AM 1,003,987,364 _lzw.tif
15/06/2011 10:31 AM 958,908,507 _none.tif
15/06/2011 10:30 AM 965,940,411 _packbits.tif

gdalinfo report is attached.
source file at http://files.environmentyukon.ca/matt/gdal-trans-lzw/ (in
about 20 minutes).

GDAL 1.8.0, released 2011/01/12

what's up?



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