[jacquesb]

My son-in-law often emails videos of out grandson from his iPhone, which arrive in gmail as .MOV files (Quicktime, Ithink). When I play these, in XBMC and other players they play in "landscape" ie. on its side.

Can anyone advise how I can modify this to play the right way up - a bit like the way in Shotwell, for example, there is a button to turn an image by 90 degrees?

Thanks
Jack

[topfs2]

My son-in-law often emails videos of out grandson from his iPhone, which arrive in gmail as .MOV files (Quicktime, Ithink). When I play these, in XBMC and other players they play in "landscape" ie. on its side.

Can anyone advise how I can modify this to play the right way up - a bit like the way in Shotwell, for example, there is a button to turn an image by 90 degrees?

Thanks
Jack

No way to currently do it simply, a Skinner should be able to hack it in but might be worth doing a feature request for it on trac so we can add a proper rotate command for it in core.

[alexpigment]

I'm no authority on this one, but I think the iPhone uses a non-standard flag in their MOV headers that tells Quicktime to rotate the video. I haven't found any other software that supports auto-rotating iPhone videos. I'm sure XBMC could implement a "fix" for this eventually, but just realize that it's not a situation of "everyone but XBMC" - instead it's "no one but Quicktime".

[topfs2]

Having a rotate button still makes sense, especially if its picture and video view which we kindof have already

[bustamelon]

Interesting. I'm having the same issue and stumbled upon this thread. Since I didn't see the OP reply to your TRAC suggestion, I thought I'd check to see if this had been entered yet. All I found was this: http://trac.xbmc.org/ticket/9673
Which looks like a slightly different issue -- they're asking for the option to rotate the MENU, rather than the actual video, correct? Or am I reading that wrong?

[Soju]

Isnt there a number of places this may have to function? the media, skin, and xwindows (if linux etc)?

[eickmeyer]

Would love this feature. Some of my iphone video plays upside down in everything but a mac. Reencoding is a pain.

[Vicki123]

Yep, count me in....would love to see a rotate video option on the XBMC control panel

[bossanova808]

+1! Bloody apple.

[Memphiz]

Theres already a trac ticket for it. Will take care off it after eden release:

http://trac.xbmc.org/ticket/12231

[naquaada]

Yes, that's a very important function, especcially if you have a TabletPC.

http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=119929

[nekrosoft13]

was this ever fixed/added in XBMC?

[Ned Scott]

was this ever fixed/added in XBMC?

Yeah, but I think on Windows when using hardware decoding, the rotation doesn't work for videos from iPhones. Software decoding, or hardware/software decoding on other OSes, should all rotate it correctly.

[anaximandus]

Hello there, please help me on this.

I am running XBMC on an Atom D525 with nvidia ION. I just switched from MediaPortal and I am so very happy with the performance. All the videos that MediaPortal can't handle are played smoothly by XBMC!
But I am in the habit of holding my iPhone "upside down" when I take a video clip, so all my MOVs are upside down on the TV (but they play smoothly!).

I use the Frodo release, and I tested deactivating hardware rendering, but then the blissfulness is over, so I need it. (And the videos where not rotated correctly, either.)

Now, the video player in Windows 8 can read the flag and play the video smoothly, rotated according to the flag.
Can I expect XBMC to find a "follow up", or should I find a way to reencode my videos?


Thanks for your advice,
Anaximandus

[Ned Scott]

Known issue with Windows and hardware video decoding. No solution at the moment.