spheretocube VIEW and XMP metadata?

If an equirectangular image contains certain XMP metadata, the yaw of the created rectilinear image in VIEW mode is by 180° wrong.

I use this command on a linux machine in a script:

krpanotools spheretocube VIEW "$myFile" "./wwpthumbfinal.tif" -profile=sRGB -cachesize=128 -outsize=2048x1024 -fov=$6 -lookat=$myPan,$myTilt,0 -q

For one image this didn't work, the yaw was wrong by 180°. I discovered that if I remove the XMP metadata from the image, it works as expected. I tried the -noautolevel parameter to no avail. How can I convince krpanotools to ignore XMP metadata?

version is 1.20.11 64-bit

best regards

Erik Krause

Correction: -noautolevel works as expected. So anyone who has this problem, use -noautolevel