Converting Sid files to Tif or jpg

nguye103 · 01-28-2005, 10:22 AM

Hi,

I am using Red Hat 9 and i need something that will convert sid files to tif or jpg files. I downloaded MrSid Decod from lizardtech.com because our comapany has used that for windows and it worked on Suse 9.1, but it does not work on Red Hat 9. I keep getting segmenation fault when i run it. I e-mailed support and they said that they only support linux 7.4. I was wondering if anyone knew of any other way i can convert sid files to tif or jpg files. Thanks in advance for any help!!!

bruno buys · 01-28-2005, 11:34 AM

I downloaded the exec from http://www.lizardtech.com/download/d...e_linux.tar.gz and it did run here, though I don't have a mrsid file to test it better.

Why don't you run a linux live cd and try again? Maybe with a diff distro... You can even download a suse live cd.

nguye103 · 01-28-2005, 01:17 PM

Well i know that it does work with suse 9.1 because i tried that before. We just switched to red hat 9 because we couldn't get oracle onto SUSE, but we are able to on Red Hat, and mrsid won't wok now. We really need some sort of decompression tool on red hat because oracle is on here now.

BrianK · 01-28-2005, 02:14 PM

It appears that Imagemagick can handle sid. There's a good chance it's already in your readhat distro, from a command line, simply try:

convert image.sid image.jpg

if you don't have "convert", install imagemagick - it's either on your SRC RPMs disk, or you can download the rpm from the imagemagick website.

convert is pretty handy - use it with a for loop to convert all sid files to jpgs (or tifs) - in tcsh:

Code:

foreach f (*.sid)
  echo $f
  convert $f $f:r.jpg
end

mikephosco · 02-09-2005, 03:57 PM

>> It appears that Imagemagick can handle sid.

Up to a point, Lord Copper.

I tried, because I just stupidly bought 3 CDs believing them to hold jpegs which now prove to have this "sid" nonsense on them.

When I tried convert, all I got was:

convert: no decode delegate for this image format `1111.sid'.

The man pages give a whole load of formats, but nothing about "sid" or "mrsid". (I'm running Suse 9.2, which is reasonably up to date.)

I followed the links to LizardTech's website, and the only Unix/Linux stuff they have anything to do with is something called "dejavu libre" on SourceForge. I loaded that, which is a set of viewers and file type converters, hoping there'd be something there. The viewer sure doesn't read sid, and the man pages for the converters only talk about relatively well-known formats and something called djvu.

So, any further guidance from anyone?