Nuke has always been faster with zips.  Zip 16 lines files were always
considerably slower.

On Wed, Jan 4, 2017 at 3:53 PM, Larry Gritz <[email protected]> wrote:

> Out of curiosity, Piotr, do you recall what was the original reason for
> zip vs zips? Under what conditions would one prefer zipping the scanlines
> individually? Was it just for the sake of making it easier to parallelize
> the compression among threads?
>
>
> On Jan 4, 2017, at 3:42 PM, Piotr Stanczyk <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> Hi Zachary,
>
> The difference between ZIP and ZIPS is that ZIPS compresses a single line
> at a time whereas ZIP does it in chunks.
>
> For reference, http://openexr.com/TechnicalIntroduction.pdf,  pp16
>
>
> On 4 January 2017 at 15:16, Larry Gritz <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> In EXR speak, "zip" is the usual deflate/zip compression in blocks of 16
>> scanlines, and "zips" is the same compression method, but applied to each
>> scanline individually. Both are supported by OIIO.
>>
>> The compression/decompression is handled on the OpenEXR library side, not
>> by the OIIO code itself, so in theory anything should be fine with either
>> one. Though I do see a comment in my code indicating that only "zips" has
>> been found to be reliable for deep files.
>>
>> Can you give more detail about what's going wrong? You're rendering out
>> an exr with "zips"? Writing it with OIIO? Then it's "borken" when you
>> "process" them... in what way is it broken, how processed, in what program
>> does it appear broken? (Is that when also reading with OIIO, or some other
>> app?)
>>
>> Which versions of OIIO and OpenEXR are you using?
>>
>> Can you either send me one of these broken files to inspect, or else give
>> a recipe for how to create one (ideally using only OIIO components)?
>>
>>
>> On Jan 4, 2017, at 2:28 PM, Zachary Bauer <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>   A question about OIIO compression support:
>>
>> I am having redshift output Multi-Part EXRs and their headers say their
>> compression is "zips". Typically what I see is "zip" compression for my
>> EXRs from other renderers (PRMAN). Processing these redshift images using
>> Open Image IO is resulting in broken images, but if I convert them to "zip"
>> compression using oiiotool first, everything seems to work ok.
>>
>> Is "zips" compression different than "zip"?
>> Does OIIO support "zips"?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Zachary Bauer
>> Senior Software Engineer (Tools)
>> Blizzard Entertainment
>>
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