[ptx] Hugin not "optimizing"

[Hal V Engel]

On Monday 25 April 2005 11:35 am, Rob Park wrote:
> On 4/25/05, Paul Atreides <paul.atreides at chti.net> wrote:
> > Sorry Pablo but it doesn't work... I tried to click on "load EXIF"
> > button but the optimizer gives me always the same strange results.
>
> Just to make sure, did you have one of the photos selected? "Load
> EXIF" button only works when one of the photos is selected. Doesn't
> matter which one as the data it loads is applied to all images.
>
> > I don't think the problem is with the AMD64 compilation relative. I'm
> > personaly working with an old Athlon XP and encounter the same
> > malfunction...
>
> That's really bizarre. Perhaps you could try running PTOptimizer
> manually from the command line, to see what it's doing. I'm not sure
> how to do this though, maybe somebody who knows more about it could
> give some instructions?

If PTOptimizer is in the path you should be able to do something like:

PTOptimizer /some/path-to/some.pto

The pto file can be one created by hugin just make sure the FOV is <160.  When 
running on the command line like this if the library is seg faulting or 
bombing out some how you will see the error message(s).  If you don't see any 
error messages then the problem is perhaps something else.  But this is the 
first thing you should try since it will give you additional information 
about what is going on.