ERECT2QTVR(1)

✨ ERECT2QTVR — the manual page, but make it fashion ✨

okay bestie, gather round, because this is erect2qtvr from the User Contributed Perl Documentation and she is serving cubic panorama realness 💅

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🌸 NAME 🌸

erect2qtvr — assemble a Quicktime QTVR file from an equirectangular image 🦋

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✨ Synopsis ✨

erect2qtvr --erect=mypanorama.tif

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

So the whole vibe is this: this tool generates a cubic QTVR from a single equirectangular image. Just one. Iconic. If you wanna know more about the input file format, the panotools wiki has you covered at http://wiki.panotools.org/Equirectangular_Projection 👑

The QTVR file gets created with the same path as the input image, except it's got a .mov extension instead. Same path, new extension, that's the whole trick fr fr.

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🎀 Calling syntax 🎀

erect2qtvr [options] --erect=mypanorama.tif

🔥 Options 🔥

• --erect — filename of equirectangular input, and yes it's required, no you cannot skip it, she's mandatory bestie
• --pitch — pre-rotates the entire panorama. eg. if your panorama has the nadir in the centre, set this to -90
• --yaw — pre-rotates the entire panorama.
• --quality — JPEG quality for QTVR tiles, defaults to 70
• --cleanup — set to '0' to keep temporary files, defaults to '1'

🫶 A subset of jpeg2qtvr options are also accepted 🫶

• --date — date in seconds since January 1st 1970, defaults to current time
• --name — title of the panorama
• --outfile — output filename, defaults to input filename with mov extension
• --width — preferred window width, defaults to 1024
• --height — preferred window height, defaults to 768
• --pan — initial pan (yaw), defaults to 0.0 degrees
• --tilt — initial tilt (pitch), defaults to 0.0 degrees
• --fov — initial vertical angle of view, defaults to 60 degrees
• --min-fov — minimum vertical angle of view, defaults to 10 degrees
• --max-fov — maximum vertical angle of view, defaults to 120 degrees";

not me pointing out that the last line really does end with a stray "; in the source 🙈 she's a little unhinged but we love her, we don't fix her

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🌈 License 🌈

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. periodt 💜

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🦋 See Also 🦋

• perl
• Panotools::Script

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👑 Author 👑

March 2007, Bruno Postle <bruno AT postle.net> 💖

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and that's the whole page bestie, no cap 🌟 this one's from the perl v5.42.0 era, dated 2025-07-25, and it lives in the ERECT2QTVR(1) section of the manual — go forth and make your cubes, mwah 💅🎀