rotating video - Galaxy S6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hi,
I am using several apps where video's are posted like news videos. For instance NOS is a populair newsfeed app with videos in it. When viewing those videos they are played normal with the Samsung s6 Edge portraid stand. This is only a small part of the screen while the videos can be played on a pc for instalnce full screen.
So i turn the phone landscape and assume the the video will go landscape and full screen to but that isn;t the case it has never done that. The video keeps playing a small part of the screen.
The setting in Android is to turn the screen when the phone is turned so when holding the phone landscape the screen is also landscape. When i choose the camera and set it oin video that videoscreen is landscape so that is working good, but not within apps.
Does anyone now how to solve this..?

corneke said:
Hi,
I am using several apps where video's are posted like news videos. For instance NOS is a populair newsfeed app with videos in it. When viewing those videos they are played normal with the Samsung s6 Edge portraid stand. This is only a small part of the screen while the videos can be played on a pc for instalnce full screen.
So i turn the phone landscape and assume the the video will go landscape and full screen to but that isn;t the case it has never done that. The video keeps playing a small part of the screen.
The setting in Android is to turn the screen when the phone is turned so when holding the phone landscape the screen is also landscape. When i choose the camera and set it oin video that videoscreen is landscape so that is working good, but not within apps.
Does anyone now how to solve this..?
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Videos that play in apps will only play the way the app wants them too. Some apps simply don't allow video rotation.

Ok thx. I had to know that myself....

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fullscreen video - core vs divx

Hi all-
I'm trying to watch a movie on the fuze, and while I love letterbox fullscreen on my plasma at home, on my 3" screen i'd like to get as much picutre as possible. I'd like the DivX player or CORE to play fullscreen like WMP does and takes up the whole screen portrait-wise. DivX will switch to portrait when put into fullscreen, but it leaves 1/3 of the screen blank on top and bottom. There doesn't appear to be settings to fix this. CORE gives you much more control over aspect-ratio, pixel size, screen size, zoom, etc etc. It even has an orientation setting, however I can't seem to get it to flip portrait and then go fullscreen. Anyone have any experience as how to accomplish this? I was going to try to find the 'rotate screen' icon on the programs tab (like the tilt used to have) then go back into the movie with CORE, but I don't think the fuze can do that
Anyone with anything helpful would be appreciated
Im not sure what you are asking, but that probably just me (its early). With core, I get full screen, in any orientation i want. Just tap the movie screen and it should go portrait...
divx player has a rotation option for when your in full screen.
could you let me know where that option is on divx player? when i tap the screen it brings up a volume slider (up/down) and a seek slider (left\right)
settings only says fullscreen doesnt appear to have any orientation option
and actually, with core, my movie (700mb) freezes up when i hit fullscreen. so itmay in fact play in landscape and use up the whole screen, but perhaps because the file is so large it seems to just freeze the screen - maybe i should let it sit for a few minutes see if it adjusts itself? audio continues playing, but picture freezes up
its some where in settings i dont remember and dont have divx reinstalled yet from my last flash. you can get out of full screen with a couple taps, i also dont remember off the top of my head. in settings there should be an option for no rotation or rotation left or right. the divx player is very simple, not alot of options. i dont think its also a great performer, its staggery (prolly just my videos). i havent used my fuze as a media device much since i only recently got it so i dont have any other suggestions.

Watch videos in landscape while phone in portrait

Before i switched to the s6 I was using an iphone 5s.
I usually watch videos on chrome while laying on the bed so on my iphone i rotate the video to landscape and watch while the phone is portrait.
Using the s6 was a bit different i had to use the phone 180 degrees so that the auto rotation wont disturb the video while watching it landcape on portrait.
Any fixes for this?
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What is exactly ur problem?
you wanna rotate everything + video player?
Or just video player?
you can switch off auto-rotate
Or you install 3rd Party Launcher like Apex/Nova that support rotation
it means whole home pages will rotate
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[Q] How to disable auto-play preview in gallery?

When I go into my gallery and click a video from the grid of photos and videos, it starts playing the video without the audio (even before I press play) and loops it as like an auto-generated preview of the video. Then, when I press play, it actually plays the video and audio together and shows the entirety of the clip.
How do I disable this? It's slow and glitchy and dumb. I want the clip to play when I click it, not just the video sans audio. And, to boot, it makes everything about 2-3 times slower to click and load due to a hitch/lag when you actually want it to play the clip.
I'm also experiencing a weird lag in the video player that I think might be a bug.
As I noted in the OP, when I open a video from the grid, it "previews" with white borders. If I click the play button in the center, my screen goes completely black for 1 second, then the video comes back, but this time with white borders, and then actually starts playing. So, I get like a 1.5-2 second lag between when I click the play button and when the video plays.
Does anyone else have this issue? I'm going to try turning video enhancer off and see what happens.
eyc said:
I'm also experiencing a weird lag in the video player that I think might be a bug.
As I noted in the OP, when I open a video from the grid, it "previews" with white borders. If I click the play button in the center, my screen goes completely black for 1 second, then the video comes back, but this time with white borders, and then actually starts playing. So, I get like a 1.5-2 second lag between when I click the play button and when the video plays.
Does anyone else have this issue? I'm going to try turning video enhancer off and see what happens.
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i have the same issue that you are having in your original post... have you found a way to address this? the autoplay with the white grid is annnnnoyinnnnng!!!!!
eyc said:
When I go into my gallery and click a video from the grid of photos and videos, it starts playing the video without the audio (even before I press play) and loops it as like an auto-generated preview of the video. Then, when I press play, it actually plays the video and audio together and shows the entirety of the clip.
How do I disable this? It's slow and glitchy and dumb. I want the clip to play when I click it, not just the video sans audio. And, to boot, it makes everything about 2-3 times slower to click and load due to a hitch/lag when you actually want it to play the clip.
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When the Video is playing
click on the 3 Dots /Settings/ OFF - Auto play next
ilordvader said:
When the Video is playing
click on the 3 Dots /Settings/ OFF - Auto play next
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this stops the next video from playing. however, as EYC has mentioned - it's the looping of the video with the white bars that's the issue. my wife has the s7 and it doesn't display this behavior....
kdfdawg said:
this stops the next video from playing. however, as EYC has mentioned - it's the looping of the video with the white bars that's the issue. my wife has the s7 and it doesn't display this behavior....
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Does yours also temporarily go to a fully black screen when you hit the play button, causing the video to hitch between pressing play and it actually playing? That's what I find most irritating.
eyc said:
Does yours also temporarily go to a fully black screen when you hit the play button, causing the video to hitch between pressing play and it actually playing? That's what I find most irritating.
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mine does exactly that. the fact that the video auto loops too drives me insane.
As a workaround to the stock gallery's wonky video player, I'm using Google Photos (which has its own built-in video player).
One of the cool things about Google Photos is you can access it directly from within the camera app. There's a setting called "Camera shortcut" within Photos, which overlays a shortcut thumbnail onto the camera. You can press and drag this thumbnail shortcut anywhere you want - you can even place it on top of the stock gallery thumbnail if you want. After you shoot a video or take a picture, the little thumbnail pops up and you can jump directly to Photos to watch the video or whatever.
Rather than use the work around suggested by Henrybravo, has anyone actually managed to find the toggle box to turn off auto play on the current selected video in Gallery? I have exactly the same issue as eyc and kdfdawg and it's driving me nuts!
Helodoxa said:
Rather than use the work around suggested by Henrybravo, has anyone actually managed to find the toggle box to turn off auto play on the current selected video in Gallery? I have exactly the same issue as eyc and kdfdawg and it's driving me nuts!
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When the Video is playing
click on the 3 Dots /Settings/ OFF - Auto play next
But what i want help with is -
When i open camera & click on Gallery it also shows the WhatsApp videos and pics
I want to set it to only show me the Camera pics i have clicked
anyone knows how to set that ?
Can somebody explain how to turn this off? It is really anoying
Also waiting for a solution to turning off this retarded video thumbnail preview. I just want a static thumbnail. And I'm used to gallery, I don't want to switch to Google Photos.
How to stop S9+ from playing all videos automatically
Helodoxa said:
Rather than use the work around suggested by Henrybravo, has anyone actually managed to find the toggle box to turn off auto play on the current selected video in Gallery? I have exactly the same issue as eyc and kdfdawg and it's driving me nuts!
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From the camera open “Gallery”
Open any video
Pause the video
Tap the 3 vertical dots on the up right
Turn off “Auto play next”
You’re done
[email protected] said:
From the camera open “Gallery”
Open any video
Pause the video
Tap the 3 vertical dots on the up right
Turn off “Auto play next”
You’re done
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This is not the issue! The problem is with Gallery, not Video Player. I've already turned off auto play next. I want to stop Gallery doing the silly silent looping video preview. There seems to be no setting to control this. I think it's a new "feature" in Gallery, and is really annoying. I have an S7 edge running Oreo.
G!!
pmstirling said:
This is not the issue! The problem is with Gallery, not Video Player. I've already turned off auto play next. I want to stop Gallery doing the silly silent looping video preview. There seems to be no setting to control this. I think it's a new "feature" in Gallery, and is really annoying. I have an S7 edge running Oreo.
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Go into gallery app settings, go to "about gallery", where it says "version xxx.x.xxx.x" tap that seven times. Press back and there should then be "gallery labs" at the very bottom. Go in there, disable "video preview on picture list" close the app (make sure it's closed properly through "recent" then open gallery again and it should no longer show video previews!!
Samsung Gallery used to be good years ago.
Today it sucks. Try a 3rd party app like Gallery.
If anyone has a better freeware/ad free Gallery app,
please post it
N1vag said:
Go into gallery app settings, go to "about gallery", where it says "version xxx.x.xxx.x" tap that seven times. Press back and there should then be "gallery labs" at the very bottom. Go in there, disable "video preview on picture list" close the app (make sure it's closed properly through "recent" then open gallery again and it should no longer show video previews!!
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This really solve my problem for android 10
Thanks a million

Black HBO Max video display (tablet landscape mode) and for *some* other video apps (Galaxy S6 Lite)

I'm looking at a strange problem that arose suddenly -- I'm not sure when since I had not run any of the affected apps on the tablet recently. When I run HBO Max -- which of course switches to landscape mode before actually running a video -- I end up only with a black screen overlaid with the stop/start/forward/back controls, etc. The horizontal (selection) part of the app is fine. I have tried obvious things like changing settings, wiping data, uninstalling and reinstalling. At some point this was all working such fine.
However, this is not the only app behaving in a similar manner. Both Sling and Criterion are doing much the same on this Samsung Galaxy S6 Lite. In their cases, I do get the video on portrait mode, and lose it in landscape mode. On Sling, I DO see the video in landscape mode momentarily when I select forward or back, or while seeking.
A lot of other apps like YouTube, Pluto, and a whole bunch of others are displaying fine in landscape mode. My guess is that this has something to do with DRM for the premium apps, yet Sling and Criterion *are* displaying video OK in portrait mode. Only HBO Max is totally useless since it has no portrait mode display that I'm aware of.
Any ideas? A factory reset of the tablet is really out of the question. Thanks.

Question Anyone else have Problems with Auto-rotate on video content?

Received my Pro 7 just over a week ago. However some video content won't display in landscape mode. I first noticed the issue when playing youtube videos from the links in the Google news feed screen. If i turn the embedded video to landscape, it just throws a wobbler and goes black. Then I noticed it on 2 of my CCTV apps. Reolink and Camhi. Again if i switch the live feed, or the recorded clips into landscape, they go crazy. Reolink disconnects the camera feed and reverts back to portrait, and the Camhi just switches back to portrait. Very strange. Ive not found anything online that seems to cover this issues, so was wondering how others get on.
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