Hi all,<br><br>If you following the photograhy world news, you have certainly seen than M$ have created since one year a new file format named HDPhoto...<br><br>The picture file is based on TIFF. It support Exif/IPTC/XMP/ICC profiles. This file format is supported by default into M$ Vista and the future Adobe Photoshop CS3.
<br><br>M$ provide a porting kit witch can be compiled under Linux !<br><br>And yes it compile fine here. I have just fixed one line in a C file (:=))) and moved the Makefile at the right place. The kit provide the shared lib raries to encode/decode/read metadata from HDPhoto files, and 2 command line tools like backend of libraries...
<br><br>Of course, this porting kit license is special (:=))). Achim i promise you some long white night to read the M$ EULA. Without to have read the paper, i'm sure it not compatible as well with open-source world (it's not GPL/BSD like)... But i recommend to read the wikipedia page before to take too fast conclusion :
<br><br><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Media_Photo">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Media_Photo</a><br><br>More informations about HDPhoto can be found here :<br><br><a href="http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/forpros/wmphoto/">
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/forpros/wmphoto/</a><br><br>My personnal tarball fixed to compile under linux is here :<br><br><a href="http://digikam3rdparty.free.fr/misc.tarballs/hdphoto-porting-kit-linux.tar.gz">
http://digikam3rdparty.free.fr/misc.tarballs/hdphoto-porting-kit-linux.tar.gz</a><br><br>Uncompress the tarball, go to HDPhoto folder, and start "make all"... That all...<br><br>What do you think about ? <br><br>
Gilles <br>
<br>Note: Please this is not a troll. Stay constructive (:=)))...<br><br><br><br><br>