It looks to me from this link http://www.gdal.org/frmt_jp2kak.html that GDAL uses Kakadu, not OpenJPEG.

On Friday, November 22, 2013 6:00:07 PM UTC-8, Michael Aye wrote:


On Sunday, November 17, 2013 8:57:56 PM UTC-8, Pierre Villeneuve wrote:
What about the OpenJPEG library: http://www.openjpeg.org.  Could that be an alternative?

If this is the driver that is exposed by GDAL, it's far too slow and crashy for HiRISE images.