[Gimp-developer] Reading and saving of 3D MPO files in GIMP

[Albrecht Lohöfener <albrechtloh gmx de>]

Hi all,

I have a 3D camera which generates MPO files. When I open such a file in 
GIMP the program reads only the first JPEG picture in this file but not 
the second one.
On this site (http://cstein.kings.cam.ac.uk/~chris/mposplit/index.html) 
there is a sourcecode which splits the MPO file in two JPEG files.
Is it possible to implement an import filter which reads the MPO file 
and loads the right picture as layer 1 and the left picture as layer 2, 
for example?
The advantage of this would be that the right and left picture are 
edited simultaneously in the same way when I edit a 3D picture.

I can help to implement and to test this but I don't have any experience 
with the gimp sourcecode and the structures of the JPEG files.

Kind regards,
Albrecht