Can anyone tell me how do I roate the screen when I am playing a video file.
I have copied them as widescreen and they played on my orbit 2 no problem but recently i tried to play a video but it will only play in portrait. Tried rotating screen but didnt change anything.
I dont understand why it would play before in landscape full screen but now only plays in portrait full screen
any ideas
thanks
Can anyone tell me how do I rotate the screen when I am playing a video file.
I have copied them as widescreen and they played on my orbit 2 no problem but recently i tried to play a video but it will only play in portrait. Tried rotating screen but didnt change anything.
I dont understand why it would play before in landscape full screen but now only plays in portrait full screen
any ideas
thanks
One thing that has really pissed me off forever, is when people post videos on YouTube or wherever, but which were recorded incorrectly. By "incorrectly" I mean in portrait. Nothing looks worse than watching a narrow ass video with two fat black bars on either side of it, wasting space, and wasting my time watching a crappy video that would have been cool if the person recording the damn thing just turned their phone 90 degrees...
What I propose is a MOD to the camera app which includes a toggled feature to record videos in landscape, regardless of the device orientation. In other words, while the feature is toggled on, even if the user is holding the camera in a portrait position, the video being recorded will still be in landscape.
By doing this, users can still benefit from the comfort of holding their devices in portrait (because it IS easier to hold that way, especially when you're going one-handed), while recording videos which will show up properly during playback in landscape.
Thoughts?
Vertical Video Syndrome - A PSA
Has anyone else seen an issue with 4k video being played back rotated as if it were recorded in portrait (and yes it was recorded properly)? See attached screenshot.
This playback occurs in all players I have tried except VLC. Playing back in VLC isn't always an option so I'd like to get this fixed without having to go to 4k editing software for every clip that has this issue.
I have see this issue on about 20% of the videos I have shot in 4k. The details of the files look like they have the correct width and height, just like the other files that playback fine.
Any ideas?
Device Manufacturer & Model: LG Nexus 5
Android Version: 5.0.2
Rom Info: CM12 02/28 Nightly, tested also on CM12 02/15 Nightly
Detailed Problem Description:
Hi. I have encountered a very specific issue with MX Player. When I am playing full HD portrait video and next video is full HD landscape, the Android video driver seems to completely crash in the event when videos switch. E.g. when portrait one ends and landscape one starts playing. Sometimes the device freezes with corrupted graphics, sometimes it recovers, but graphics are shifted and reboot is needed to resume normal operation.
I have reset the settings to default when reproducing the issue and only setting I am using is Display / Settings / Screen / Orientation : Auto rotation. I am holding the phone in portrait, so basically the first video should be full screen on my phone and the second should be scaled down a lot to fit in portrait. It happens with both HW and HW+ codecs.
I have recorded two short videos which can be used to reproduce the problem. I have also recorded the behavior on the phone using another camera (this time the phone "kind of recovered").
Steps to reproduce the problem:
1. Install MX player.
2. Set Display / Settings / Screen / Orientation : Auto rotation
3. Play attached videos when holding the phone in portrait, the crash should appear when the first ends and the second starts.
See recorded video for details.
Logs from MX Player
Video 1 - portrait
Video 2 - landscape
Issue recorded using another camera to show what happens on the phone
It works in default video player and does not cause anything similar. I did not have a chance to try it on stock ROM yet. However, I have a lot of videos with different sizes and switching between them does not cause the issue. Just full HD videos.
Let me know if any more details are needed.
It happens on stock 5.1 too. Very annoying if you have mix of portrait and landscape videos recorded.
fenikso said:
It happens on stock 5.1 too. Very annoying if you have mix of portrait and landscape videos recorded.
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It looks like ROM issue if HW has same issue.
FYI, HW is default media player actually which is provided by the OS.
bleu8888 said:
It looks like ROM issue if HW has same issue.
FYI, HW is default media player actually which is provided by the OS.
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I did some more testing. It happens on all factory images I had for Nexus 5, 4.4.4, 5.0.1, 5.1. All of them exhibit the same problem. I tried also the SW decoder, but that did not tell me anything, as SW does not follow the tag for portrait orientation, so the portrait video showed up as landscape anyway.
Now the interesting part is that default player does not crash like that, when switching between the videos. But it takes longer to switch. It seems that it deletes the whole drawing surface and starts it again. Contrary, when switching videos in MX Player you can always see last frame of previous video stretch to the following video size before it starts playing.