JPEG2QTVR(1)

JPEG2QTVR 💖 the manual, but make it make sense

okay so bestie, you're reading the jpeg2qtvr page from the User Contributed Perl Documentation section of the manual. Section 1, iykyk. Let's get into it. 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

jpeg2qtvr — assemble Quicktime QTVR files from JPEG cubefaces 💅

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🦋 Synopsis 🦋

jpeg2qtvr --prefix=foo_ > my_panorama.mov

like. that's it. that's the whole vibe. 🫶

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so this tool generates a cubic QTVR, and that cube is made of six cube faces in JPEG format. six. not five, not seven. six, babe. ✨

your JPEG input files must all be square and must all have the same dimensions — eg: 1920x1920. no rectangles, no mixing sizes, we're not doing chaos here. 😭

the cubefaces must be specified in a standard sequence, and that sequence is, in order:

1. front
2. right
3. back
4. left
5. up
6. down

periodt. that's the order. don't rearrange them, she WILL notice. 👑

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💜 Calling syntax 💜

jpeg2qtvr [options] --prefix=PREFIX > OUTPUT

eg. use --prefix=foo_ if the front, right, back, left, up and down JPEG tiles are named foo_0.jpg, foo_1.jpg, foo_2.jpg, foo_3.jpg, foo_4.jpg and foo_5.jpg

see how foo_ is the prefix and then 0 through 5 just slots in there? yeah. 0 = front, 1 = right, 2 = back, 3 = left, 4 = up, 5 = down. the numbering follows that standard sequence from up top. slay. 🧚

✨ Options ✨

• --date — date in seconds since January 1st 1970, defaults to current time ⏰
• --name — title of the panorama 🏷️
• --width — preferred window width, defaults to 1024
• --height — preferred window height, defaults to 768
• --outfile — name for output mov file, otherwise result goes to STDOUT 📤
• --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
• --preview — prefix for preview track JPEG tiles 🖼️

not me listing all eleven of them so nothing gets left out 🙈 every single flag stays, bestie. no cap.

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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. 💖

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⭐ See Also ⭐

• perl
• Panotools::Script

go read those too, they're giving main character energy. 🎀

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👑 Author 👑

October 2006, Bruno Postle <bruno AT postle.net>

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and that's the whole page, bestie!! 💅 this one shipped as part of perl v5.42.0 and the page itself is dated 2025-07-25. go make a panorama, you absolute icon. 🦋✨🌸