What is your biggest pain with ODM / OpenSfM?

5000 series NVidia support is number 1 for me. One of the biggest negatives about webODM for me is the speed. Ive got a reasonably capable computer (9950x, 128gb ram) but the processing time is terribly slow compared to alternative software. I have a 5070 GPU, and have to disable GPU to be able to successfully complete a task.

Something Id also like to see would potentially be a end-user friendly viewing application for the deliverables. A way to provide the client with the geotiff etc in a simple piece of desktop software that can run on modest hardware. I wonder if its just a case of stripping down the software to a viewer-only variant?

I also seem to have an issue where the orthographic output resolution isnt nearly as high as the source data, but that may possibly be my settings. Putting the same photo set through DJI Terra I get higher resolution results.

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