topic Re: Video player rotation in Z Series

Video player rotation

@5449218201014089 — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 21:35:17 GMT

Hi,

When starting to play a video, the video player on my Xperia Z automatically rotates to landscape mode, even if the video was made in portrait mode:

Pressing the fullscreen button only only stretches the video to the wrong aspect ratio:

While other apps rotate fine, I am unable to rotate the video player to portrait mode.

As a consequence, portrait videos are displayed very small. Is this a software bug or am I missing something?

Also, I'm still waiting for a reply on my other question: http://talk.sonymobile.com/thread/122063.

Re: Video player rotation

kipperman — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 22:45:22 GMT

A lot of movie player apps only play in landscape mode, they don't support the auto rotate. I assume this is the case with the Sony movie player.

Re: Video player rotation

Uliwooly — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 22:50:54 GMT

if you want to watch a video on portrait that was recorded on portrait you will need to use a different video player like QuickPic (yes it has a video player)

Re: Video player rotation

@5449218201014089 — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 23:27:04 GMT

Well, if the mods/support team read this, maybe they can pass it on to the development team as a feature request?

I like to use the build-in apps as much as possible, because their interface/theme is nicely integrated with the rest of the phone. Before my Xperia Z, I've been using iPhone for three years, where rotating videos has never been any problem.

Re: Video player rotation

Uliwooly — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 23:32:56 GMT

this wasn't an issue on other Xperias but it shouldn't be hard for Sony Devs to fix this

Re: Video player rotation

@5449218201014089 — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 13:05:26 GMT

@Sony Xperia support: would it be possible to pass this on?

Re: Video player rotation

azzido — Sat, 30 Mar 2013 12:10:01 GMT

Stock video player rotation is a known issue, I tried to play the original commercial video that I found on internal memory with stock Sony player and I wanted to watch this in full screen but the movie didn't rotate... I can see it only the way that Nick89 posted on his first screen.

What is wired, when you put this number: *#*#73556673#*#* then the same promo video will start in full screen 😕
Remember that after you put this number, the promo video will start every time you unlock the phone. To cancel it, just put this number again.

Thank you.

Re: Video player rotation

Johan — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 07:24:57 GMT

I will pass it on.

Re: Video player rotation

Ronaldfromholla — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 19:39:57 GMT

I highly reccomend mx player from playstore

Re: Video player rotation

lisariley1234 — Mon, 02 Dec 2013 10:11:25 GMT

hi ronald i just installed mxplayer and did one video it was great but when i did another one and clicked on the icon to watch it its not there only the first one i did and i cant watch it from my gallery im not very up on phones so any suggestions much apreciated

Re: Video player rotation

JustJoyce — Sun, 10 Dec 2017 10:36:37 GMT

Quickpic is good but will only give you option to rotate clockwise and i want to rotate counter clockwise! Any other recommendations?