Rotate 270 results in a double image

[playmedia]

I keep my monitor on portrait. I'd like to be able to rotate a movie in VLC so I can view it in portrait mode without having to change the Windows/Nvidia rotate settings, which takes a long time for every program to respond to the new orientation.

I.e., I just want to watch a movie in VLC in portraint mode, and after that, my programs still be in landscape mode.

So I have the Preferences: Filters: Transform set to Rotate by 270. And then I click on Transformations in the extended GUI.

But there's a double image. The image is rotated by 270, but it doesn't extend to the width (portrait-wise) of the screen. Rather, about 1/4 of the image width is repeated. It seems that the width of the movie after transformation is the same as before transformation, with the remainder of the screen being filled in with a repeat of the image.

I've seen this with a number of AVIs, and I don't think I've encountered one that works properly, so I think it's a problem with VLC.

[Arite]

What version of VLC are you using (e.g. 0.8.6c or 0.9.0-svn)?

Arite.

[playmedia]

I'm using .8.6 (not b or c).

[funman]

download the 0.8.6c first

and then you can try different video output modules (select it in the preferences)

[playmedia]

OK, I downloaded .8.6c and selected various output modes. Details appear below, but the short version is that
-the default (DirectX hardware overlay) results in double image and uses very little CPU (2 or 3%)
-OpenGL output results in no double image but uses much more CPU (17-25%)

Could I make a request of the devs to possibly look into fixing this (DirectX rotated mode) for Windows if it's not a big deal? Thanks.

I'm running XP SP2 with Nvidia GeForce 6200 on DVI, by the way.

----------------Details appear below:

"Color ASCII art video output" - no video output window, sound is played.

"Direct3D video output" - there is a video output window, but it's all black, in windowed as well as full screen mode. Sound is played.

"DirectX video output" - same as default. Video output window shows "VLC (hardware YUV overlay DirectX output". There is a double image. CPU ranges between 1 and 8, usually 2 or 3.

"Dummy video output" - no video output window, sound is played.

"Image video output" - no video output window, sound is played.

"OpenGL video output" - no double image - normal speed, time position (keyboard command t) available, forward and backward available, reponsive to keyboard commands, CPU 17-25

"Windows GDI video output" - no double image - slow as molasses, no time position display, no forward and backward, slow to respond to keyboard commands (like F for full screen) (even if there is no transformation).

[funman]

you can also try disabling video "overlay", in the preferences.