Reading and saving of 3D MPO files in GIMP
Submitted by Albrecht Lohöfener
Link to original bug (#675262)
Description
Some cameras create MPO files which contain multiple images. The cameras Fujifilm W1 Finepix Real 3D and Fujifilm W3 Finepix Real 3D for example save the right and the left picture of a 3D picture in a MPO file and the camera Ricoh CX5 saves serial pictures in a MPO file.
On this site (http://cstein.kings.cam.ac.uk/~chris/mposplit/index.html) there is a sourcecode which splits the MPO file in two or more JPEG files.
The idea is to use this code to implement a MPO import filter for gimp which reads a "3D MPO" file of the Fujifilm W1, for example, and loads the right picture as layer 1 and the left picture as layer 2. The advantage of this would be that the right and the left picture are edited simultaneously in the same way.
At the moment GIMP only reads the first image of the MPO file.
On the GIMP developer mailing list there was a little discussion about this idea of an import filter. Please check the following link: http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.video.gimp.devel/21613