Awesome. Thanks!

On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 6:15 PM, Larry Gritz <[email protected]> wrote:

> Great.  All other things being equal, this feels like a 1.3 feature to me.
>  But if you come to the point where you need it backported, just let me
> know.
>
> -- lg
>
>
>
> On Aug 16, 2013, at 10:13 AM, Mark Boorer wrote:
>
> We're mostly running 1.1 here, but the tool utilising the stereo writing
> via OIIO isn't even finished yet, so I'm happy to wait till the next major
> version (assuming that's not terribly far away). Until then, i'll just keep
> using the copy I compiled this morning and be mindful that any further
> hiccups are probably related to its Beta nature. No need to back port from
> my perspective.
>
> Cheers,
> Mark
>
>
>
> On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 5:46 PM, Larry Gritz <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Great, I'm glad it checks out on your end.
>>
>> It's such a big change to the DPX code that I'm not comfortable merging
>> it into a release branch immediately.  So here's my plan: I'll merge it
>> into master fairly soon, and if it seems well behaved after some time there
>> (at SPI, we build from the master branch, so it will get thoroughly
>> production tested), then I'll think about back-porting it to 1.2.  (If you
>> guys are on 1.2 and start itching for this, just let me know.)
>>
>> -- lg
>>
>>
>> On Aug 16, 2013, at 9:26 AM, Mark Boorer wrote:
>>
>> Hey Larry,
>>
>> I managed to compile your version today, and it worked great! I was able
>> to read and write both stereo and mono DPX's, and they were viewable in
>> both iv and our own in house playback software.
>>
>> I've never been able to read back DPX's with subimages in Nuke. I don't
>> think it supports them. Also I think i was mistaken when i mentioned that
>> RV could read them. I must've been looking at the source EXRs :/ . So I do
>> believe you are correct that OIIO is now the most complete implementation :D
>>
>> Everything is groovy from my perspective, so assuming things look okay to
>> you, I guess we'll see this in a future release.
>>
>> Thanks again for all your effort!
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Mark
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 11:42 PM, Larry Gritz <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Incidentally, I was never able to get Nuke to properly read those stereo
>>> files, no matter what I do it only recognizes one of the views.  And also,
>>> even for single-image DPX files, Nuke gives errors if you try to feed it a
>>> DPX file with 'float' data, ugh.  OIIO may very well be the most complete
>>> DPX implementation readily available.  If all else fails, you can use
>>> OIIO's 'iv' to view these stereo files (with the '<' and '>' hotkeys
>>> stepping through the subimages/views within a file).
>>>
>>> Oh, and thanks for pointing all this out, Mark.  Even though this
>>> deficiency had not yet been noticed where I work, surely it was only a
>>> matter of time before somebody sent us stereo DPX (or wanted to generate
>>> them) and found the problem.  It's always nice to fix a bug before it ever
>>> becomes an issue that could hold us up.
>>>
>>> -- lg
>>>
>>>
>>> On Aug 15, 2013, at 3:33 PM, Larry Gritz wrote:
>>>
>>> https://github.com/OpenImageIO/oiio/pull/658
>>>
>>> It's a pretty big change to the DPX module, which is a fairly important
>>> file format for us, so it does make me a little nervous.  It would be very
>>> helpful if you could build the branch referenced in the pull request (git
>>> pull https://github.com/lgritz/oiio lg-dpx) and give that a spin on a
>>> bunch of your files, that would give me a lot more confidence about
>>> committing it to master.
>>>
>>> -- lg
>>>
>>>
>>> On Aug 15, 2013, at 11:40 AM, Mark Boorer wrote:
>>>
>>> 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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