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From: gottlieb@×××.edu
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: off topic: rotating a video
Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2015 23:39:20
Message-Id: 87lhjxifzd.fsf@nyu.edu
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: off topic: rotating a video by Nikos Chantziaras
1 On Mon, Feb 16 2015, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
2
3 > On 16/02/15 22:51, gottlieb@×××.edu wrote:
4 >> I apologize in advance for this off topic query.
5 >>
6 >> I took a video with my phone (galaxy note 4) and via google+ uploaded it
7 >> to my mail laptop. It is an mp4 and plays fine on both the phone and
8 >> the labtop except that it is sideways.
9 >>
10 >> I was surprised that neither the player on the phone nor the player on
11 >> the laptop (totem, I run gnome) seems to offer a rotation option.
12 >>
13 >> Am I missing a slightly hidden option or do I need another program.
14 >> I do not do video editing and do no plan to in the near future.
15 >
16 > You can change the metadata of the mp4 file without re-encoding
17 > it. This requires that the player you play the video in actually
18 > respects that metadata though! mplayer and mpv respect it. Your
19 > phone's player might not.
20
21 Not worried about the phone. I won't touch the file there and will
22 probably delete it when I get the one right on the laptop.
23
24 > You need ffmpeg for this (media-video/ffmpeg).
25
26 That I have (1.2.6-r1, highest stable).
27
28 > ffmpeg -i yourvideo.mp4 -c copy -metadata:s:v:0 rotate=90 output.mp4
29
30 I did this command but the result is not rotated (my player is totem).
31 There was a warning issued. Below is the command I used and the
32 on-screen output. The resulting mp4 file plays fine but is not rotated.
33
34 What did I do wrong?
35
36 thanks again,
37 allan
38
39
40
41
42 newlap tmp # ffmpeg -i orig.mp4 -c copy -metadata:s:v:0 rotate=90 r90.mp4
43 ffmpeg version 1.2.6 Copyright (c) 2000-2014 the FFmpeg developers
44 built on Feb 3 2015 14:21:53 with gcc 4.8.3 (Gentoo 4.8.3 p1.1, pie-0.5.9)
45 configuration: --prefix=/usr --libdir=/usr/lib64 --shlibdir=/usr/lib64 --mandir=/usr/share/man --enable-shared --cc=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc --cxx=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-g++ --ar=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-ar --optflags='-march=native -O2 -pipe' --extra-cflags='-march=native -O2 -pipe' --extra-cxxflags='-march=native -O2 -pipe' --disable-static --enable-gpl --enable-postproc --enable-avfilter --enable-avresample --disable-stripping --enable-version3 --disable-indev=v4l2 --disable-indev=oss --disable-indev=jack --disable-outdev=oss --enable-bzlib --disable-runtime-cpudetect --disable-debug --disable-doc --disable-gnutls --enable-hardcoded-tables --enable-iconv --enable-network --disable-openssl --enable-ffplay --disable-vaapi --disable-vdpau --enable-zlib --enable-libvo-aacenc --disable-libvo-amrwbenc --enable-libmp3lame --disable-libfdk-aac --disable-libaacplus --disable-libfaac --disable-libtheora --disable-libtwolame --enable-libx264 --enable-libxvid --disable-libcdio --disable-libiec61883 --disable-libdc1394 --dis libavutil 52. 18.100 / 52. 18.100
46 libavcodec 54. 92.100 / 54. 92.100
47 libavformat 54. 63.104 / 54. 63.104
48 libavdevice 54. 3.103 / 54. 3.103
49 libavfilter 3. 42.103 / 3. 42.103
50 libswscale 2. 2.100 / 2. 2.100
51 libswresample 0. 17.102 / 0. 17.102
52 libpostproc 52. 2.100 / 52. 2.100
53 [h264 @ 0x122e340] Warning: not compiled with thread support, using thread emulation
54 [aac @ 0x122f070] Warning: not compiled with thread support, using thread emulation
55 Input #0, mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2, from 'orig.mp4':
56 Metadata:
57 major_brand : isom
58 minor_version : 0
59 compatible_brands: isom3gp4
60 creation_time : 2015-02-08 21:30:20
61 Duration: 00:05:44.94, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 17240 kb/s
62 Stream #0:0(eng): Video: h264 (High) (avc1 / 0x31637661), yuv420p, 1920x1080, 16996 kb/s, 29.91 fps, 29.92 tbr, 90k tbn, 180k tbc
63 Metadata:
64 rotate : 90
65 creation_time : 2015-02-08 21:30:20
66 handler_name : VideoHandle
67 Stream #0:1(eng): Audio: aac (mp4a / 0x6134706D), 48000 Hz, stereo, fltp, 250 kb/s
68 Metadata:
69 creation_time : 2015-02-08 21:30:20
70 handler_name : SoundHandle
71 Output #0, mp4, to 'r90.mp4':
72 Metadata:
73 major_brand : isom
74 minor_version : 0
75 compatible_brands: isom3gp4
76 encoder : Lavf54.63.104
77 Stream #0:0(eng): Video: h264 ([33][0][0][0] / 0x0021), yuv420p, 1920x1080, q=2-31, 16996 kb/s, 29.91 fps, 90k tbn, 90k tbc
78 Metadata:
79 handler_name : VideoHandle
80 creation_time : 2015-02-08 21:30:20
81 rotate : 90
82 Stream #0:1(eng): Audio: aac ([64][0][0][0] / 0x0040), 48000 Hz, stereo, 250 kb/s
83 Metadata:
84 creation_time : 2015-02-08 21:30:20
85 handler_name : SoundHandle
86 Stream mapping:
87 Stream #0:0 -> #0:0 (copy)
88 Stream #0:1 -> #0:1 (copy)
89 Press [q] to stop, [?] for help
90 frame= 7166 fps=0.0 q=-1.0 size= 504481kB time=00:03:59.68 bitrate=17242.6kbitsframe=10311 fps=0.0 q=-1.0 Lsize= 726141kB time=00:05:44.93 bitrate=17245.2kbits/s
91 video:715245kB audio:10529kB subtitle:0 global headers:0kB muxing overhead 0.050533%
92 newlap tmp # ffmpeg -i orig.mp4 -c copy -metadata:s:v:0 rotate=90 r90.mp4

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[gentoo-user] Re: off topic: rotating a video Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.com>