need a way to rotate video playback

[Robert Ivins]

Binary package hint: totem

have problems when viewing mov files from cell phone. the viedo is turned 90 degrees to the left.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/totem-gstreamer
Package: totem-gstreamer 2.26.1-0ubuntu5
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: totem
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-15-generic i686

[Jonas Pedersen (jonasped)]

You mention a specific file in the subject of the bug, is it only that file that fails? It would be great if you could supply an example of video that suffers from this issue.

[Robert Ivins (rivins2000-yahoo)]

have had this problem with other files that were sent from a cell phone. the file works correctly in windows. attached is a copy of the file

--- On Sun, 8/30/09, Jonas Pedersen <email address hidden> wrote:

From: Jonas Pedersen <email address hidden>
Subject: [Bug 421537] Re: img_0157.mov is turned to the left by 90 drgrees. plays ok. have to turn head 90 degrees to see correctly
To: <email address hidden>
Date: Sunday, August 30, 2009, 11:24 AM

You mention a specific file in the subject of the bug, is it only that
file that fails? It would be great if you could supply an example of
video that suffers from this issue.

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img_0157.mov is turned to the left by 90 drgrees. plays ok. have to turn head 90 degrees to see correctly
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Status in “totem” package in Ubuntu: New

Bug description:
Binary package hint: totem

have problems when viewing mov files from cell phone. the viedo is turned 90 degrees to the left.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/totem-gstreamer
Package: totem-gstreamer 2.26.1-0ubuntu5
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: totem
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-15-generic i686

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

there's no support for rotate videos on totem yet, there's an upstream bug created about that, you can track it here: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=589399

[Neal McBurnett (nealmcb)]

Note that the new "rotation plugin" landed in Totem version 3.1.4 or so, which seems to have made it to Ubuntu around 13.04 Raring. It has to be manually enabled, and then rotation applied manually.

But rotation is not yet automatic, and I think that when a video has metadata indicating the need for rotation (e.g. the EXIF "Rotation" tag), the rotation should be automatic, as it is with some other viewers. See e.g.

 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=701950 comments

[Paul White (paulw2u)]

Upstream report showing "RESOLVED FIXED" on 2011-08-30
New interface has these controls if appropriate plugin enabled