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On 17/02/15 01:39, gottlieb@×××.edu wrote: |
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> On Mon, Feb 16 2015, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: |
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>> On 16/02/15 22:51, gottlieb@×××.edu wrote: |
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>>> I apologize in advance for this off topic query. |
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>>> |
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>>> I took a video with my phone (galaxy note 4) and via google+ uploaded it |
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>>> to my mail laptop. It is an mp4 and plays fine on both the phone and |
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>>> the labtop except that it is sideways. |
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>>> I was surprised that neither the player on the phone nor the player on |
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>>> the laptop (totem, I run gnome) seems to offer a rotation option. |
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>>> |
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>>> Am I missing a slightly hidden option or do I need another program. |
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>>> I do not do video editing and do no plan to in the near future. |
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>> You can change the metadata of the mp4 file without re-encoding |
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>> it. This requires that the player you play the video in actually |
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>> respects that metadata though! mplayer and mpv respect it. Your |
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>> phone's player might not. |
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> Not worried about the phone. I won't touch the file there and will |
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> probably delete it when I get the one right on the laptop. |
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>> You need ffmpeg for this (media-video/ffmpeg). |
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> That I have (1.2.6-r1, highest stable). |
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>> ffmpeg -i yourvideo.mp4 -c copy -metadata:s:v:0 rotate=90 output.mp4 |
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> I did this command but the result is not rotated (my player is totem). |
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Try mpv or mplayer. If that shows it rotated, then it's totem ignoring |
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the metadata. |
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