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Bug 701950 - Iphone Movies
Iphone Movies
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 589399
Product: totem
Classification: Core
Component: general
3.1.x
Other Linux
: Normal minor
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Assigned To: General Totem maintainer(s)
General Totem maintainer(s)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2013-06-10 17:27 UTC by James Logan
Modified: 2014-07-15 13:43 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---


Description James Logan 2013-06-10 17:27:28 UTC 
This is not a bug but a suggestion.   The videos from and Iphone are 90drg of.  It would be nice to be able to rotate the pictures 90drg.  

Thanks
J M Logan
Lafayette Data
Comment 1 Bastien Nocera 2013-06-11 10:06:41 UTC 
Enable the rotate plugin in the preferences, and use Ctrl+R or Ctrl+Shift+R.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 589399 ***
Comment 2 Neal McBurnett 2014-07-09 20:50:04 UTC 
Please reopen this bug to make it automatic (or easier) for a user to properly see videos which are marked via metadata as needing rotation.

Bug 589399 was resolved by adding the rotation plugin, which can be used manually to rotate the video.  This requires:

 - Manually finding the plugins
 - Clicking to enable the "Rotation Plugin"
 - using something like the View/Rotate Clockwise menu, or the ctrl+R keyboard shortcut to rotate the video.

Many users will fail at this.

But iPhone videos, and many others, have metadata to indicate that the video needs to be rotated.  You can see it e.g. via

$ exiftool file.mov |grep Rotation
Rotation                        : 90

Totem should respect this kind of metadata and either automatically rotate the video, or give the user hints as to how to do that if auto-enabling the rotation plugin is problematic.
Comment 3 Bastien Nocera 2014-07-09 22:17:59 UTC 
That's already fixed for iPhone videos...

commit 238a61bcf8dbf30d231b6daf445c05399944e472
Author: Bastien Nocera <hadess@hadess.net>
Date:   Fri May 30 16:23:44 2014 +0200

    backend: Automatically rotate mobile phone videos
    
    For certain types of videos, and given a new enough version of
    the "qtdemux" plugin, GStreamer will tell us which is the best
    rotation for a video. This will automatically show videos the
    right way around for videos captured upside-down or in portrait mode
    on smartphones.
Comment 4 Neal McBurnett 2014-07-10 15:16:53 UTC 
Thank you, Bastien!  Great news!  Do you know which version of Totem this will (or did) land in?  And which version of qtdemux is needed?
Comment 5 Bastien Nocera 2014-07-15 13:43:31 UTC 
(In reply to comment #4)
> Thank you, Bastien!  Great news!  Do you know which version of Totem this will
> (or did) land in?  And which version of qtdemux is needed?

It will be in GNOME 3.14 and the dependent GStreamer plugins (version 1.4).