[Solved] Incorrectly Rotated Videos

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[Solved] Incorrectly Rotated Videos

Postby TheReal_sabret00the » 24 Nov 2014 15:37

Something I see quite regularly with VLC is that Videos are rotated incorrectly where as the stock video player or something Cyanogen's GalleryNext will have videos orientated correctly.

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Re: Incorrectly Rotated Videos

Postby edwardw » 10 Dec 2014 02:12

You can rotate your phone to rotate the video, or set a rotation in preferences.

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Re: Incorrectly Rotated Videos

Postby TheReal_sabret00the » 10 Dec 2014 02:27

You can rotate your phone to rotate the video, or set a rotation in preferences.
That's simply insulting. Other video players from development houses not renowned for video playback software get it right, VLC has no excuse and should do better.

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Re: Incorrectly Rotated Videos

Postby edwardw » 10 Dec 2014 02:31

My apologies if it came across as being insulting.

VLC on Android uses the phone's rotation setting as its rotation setting if the rotation is set to Automatic. It's a bit different from Windows where usually the display cannot be rotated.

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Re: Incorrectly Rotated Videos

Postby TheReal_sabret00the » 10 Dec 2014 02:33

My apologies if it came across as being insulting.

VLC on Android uses the phone's rotation setting as its rotation setting if the rotation is set to Automatic. It's a bit different from Windows where usually the display cannot be rotated.
But the point here is that of the three video players on my phone, VLC is the only player to suffer from an issue whereby videos are often rotated incorrectly. Why are other players getting this right and VLC so wrong?

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Re: Incorrectly Rotated Videos

Postby edwardw » 10 Dec 2014 02:34

That is weird indeed.

It works fine on our testing devices...

Maybe if you upload a problematic sample we can look into it.

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Re: Incorrectly Rotated Videos

Postby TheReal_sabret00the » 10 Dec 2014 02:58

That is weird indeed.

It works fine on our testing devices...

Maybe if you upload a problematic sample we can look into it.
This isn't just one or two videos, it's all videos whereby it's filmed vertically, no matter what, VLC assumes it's filmed properly (horizontally): https://www.dropbox.com/s/ei6256l1ajuvv ... 9.mp4?dl=0

And to make matters worse, there's no way to easily rotate the video. Especially not from the playback screen where one would most want that option.

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Re: Incorrectly Rotated Videos

Postby TheReal_sabret00the » 24 Feb 2015 15:29

That is weird indeed.

It works fine on our testing devices...

Maybe if you upload a problematic sample we can look into it.
Hi did you miss the examples? You kinda just went silent.

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Re: Incorrectly Rotated Videos

Postby edwardw » 25 Feb 2015 01:04

Yes, I saw the post.

Please keep in mind that many developers are people who do this in their spare time.

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Re: Incorrectly Rotated Videos

Postby TheReal_sabret00the » 12 Mar 2015 17:35

Yes, I saw the post.

Please keep in mind that many developers are people who do this in their spare time.
My apologies. Just to verify, this is fixed in 1.1.3

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Re: Incorrectly Rotated Videos

Postby edwardw » 13 Mar 2015 02:45

Cool.


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