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 -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
