[TriLUG] Camcorder -> DVD with a 90 degree rotation?

[Ron Joffe]

Can't Help myself....


Couldn't you just turn the dvd player on it's side when playing back the 
video ?



On Tuesday 30 January 2007 12:33, T. Bryan wrote:
> On Monday 29 January 2007 01:07, Cristóbal Palmer wrote:
> > Pipe through mplayer?
> >
> > From the mplayer manpage:
> >
> >       rotate[=<0-7>]
>
> Close enough to put me on to a solution that worked.  For those joining us
> late, I needed to get video off of my camcorder and rotate it 90 degrees
> before burning it to CD.  I normally use Kino to download and encode the
> video.  I couldn't figure out how to pipe through mplayer or mencoder in
> Kino.  Those commands seem to want to do file processing, so my attempts to
> pipe with mpeg2enc failed.  Either that, or I just didn't find the pipe
> options in the thorough and loooong man page for mplayer and mencoder.
>
> Anyway, what I ended up doing is using Kino to capture and edit the video
> from my camera.  Then I exported to MPEG as usual.  Now, I had an MPEG
> video where "up" was the left of the screen.
>
> Finally, to rotate the image 90 degrees counter-clockwise so that people
> would actually be standing up correctly, I used
> mencoder sideways.mpeg -o final.mpeg -oac copy -ovc lavc \
>   -vf crop=320:480,rotate=2,scale=720:480 -aspect 4:3
>
> In my case, I was able to crop the video because when it was shot in
> portrait, much of the edges of the screen were above/below the subject of
> the video. So, I chopped off those portions, rotated, and scaled it up. 
> The resolution won't be great, but it works for my purposes with this
> video.  I didn't really lose any of the subject, and the video can be
> played from a normal DVD player without having everyone turn their heads to
> the side.  :)
>
> Thanks,
> ---Tom