[ptx] hugin has problems with particular imageset

[Rich]

it seems there has been no response to this mail - have i asked my 
question in an inappropriate way ?
have i given too little detail ?

i'd like to become better, but it is hard to do if i don't know what i 
have done wrong :)

Rich wrote:
> i have 18 images in a project.
> if i try to stich them (choosing multiple tiff as an output), hugin 
> takes ~2gb of ram for each image, processes 16 images (and stops without 
> visible reason) - and these images seem to be damaged.
> 
> i tried opening them with kuickshow, gimp, identify (from imagemagick) - 
> these tools crashed (kuickshow), grew a lot of temporary data (gimp) or 
> simply went into loop for a long time so that i had to kill them 
> (identify & kuickshow).
> 
> i've put an example image here :
> http://evf.lv/stuff/out0000.tif
> (it's 19mb)
> 
> what is wrong with this image ? should i report this to 
> gimp/kuickshow/imagemagick developers ?
> 
> if anybody is willing to look into this i could put up for download 
> whole project, so that somebody could try to reproduce this - or i could 
> run hugin with strace or do any other debugging.
> 
> when i tried to remove most images, leaving two of them, they were 
> processed normally.
> 
> using hugin cvs-050602
-- 
  Rich