Bug#1040168: The default orientation of a video in mplayer is wrong

[Lorenzo <plorenzo@disroot.org>]

Control: severity -1 wishlist

On Sun, 2 Jul 2023 19:49:28 +0200 AlMa <AlMa0@ro.ru> wrote:
> Package: mplayer
> Version: 2:1.5+svn38408-1
> 
> The video in the attachment is supposed to be oriented in a way such 
> that the ground and water is below, and the sky is above. VLC does
> this without any options (and `mplayer -vf rotate=0` and `mplayer -vf 
> rotate`).  However, the default orientation in mplayer is wrong; what
> I see is the video on the side.
> 
> Please improve mplayer in this respect.

Hi,

This issue needs work upstream and giving the low activity there I
don't think there will be a patch soon.
Also, according to upstream, rotation was never applied by default due
to performance impact, so this is a new feature request rather than a
regression. And the one time fix (that is, add vf-pre=rotate to
mplayer.conf[1]) on user side is cheap enough to consider this a
wishlist bug.

possible future development can be followed upstream at
https://trac.mplayerhq.hu/ticket/2415

Lorenzo

[1] I tested this with the video provided and it works, it may not
   work with some other -vo, not sure.

> 
> Gratefully,
> AlMa