Pointcloud in LAS 1.4 point format 7

[pmr]

Hi,
I'm exploring the capabilities of LAS several point formats to extend point cloud classification to other objects than the terrain. So far, it was possible with CloudCompare to classify the PC, save it in LAS 1.4 Point format 7, load it again and everything was perfect. Now I wanted to load the PC into pgpointcloud in order to make some queries to my PC (it's a cathedral interior and exterior). The loading into pgpointcloud goes through a PDAL pipeline. Unfortunately I get an error message like this: "(PDAL pipeline readers.las ERROR) Global encoding WKT flag not set for point format 6-10. PDAL: readers.las: Unsupported LAS input point format: 7."
My question: Is this a PDAL problem that does not support point formats 6-10 at all? Or is this a CC problem by exporting the LAS 1.4 format 7? Or is it a problem of working with an arbitrary coordinate system which prevents the global encoding flag to be set to WKT? Any help would be more than welcome. Thanks in advance.

[daniel]

Yes PDAL doesn't support LAS 1.4 files (yet).

This is why we have an alternate LAS filter (in the Windows version at least) base LASlib.

[pmr]

Thank You, Daniel.