Note that the new "rotation plugin" landed in Totem version 3.1.4 or so, which seems to have made it to Ubuntu around 13.04 Raring. It has to be manually enabled, and then rotation applied manually.
But rotation is not yet automatic, and I think that when a video has metadata indicating the need for rotation (e.g. the EXIF "Rotation" tag), the rotation should be automatic, as it is with some other viewers. See e.g. https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=701950 comments ** Bug watch added: GNOME Bug Tracker #701950 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=701950 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to totem in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/421537 Title: need a way to rotate video playback Status in Totem Movie Player: Fix Released Status in “totem” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Binary package hint: totem have problems when viewing mov files from cell phone. the viedo is turned 90 degrees to the left. ProblemType: Bug Architecture: i386 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04 ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/totem-gstreamer Package: totem-gstreamer 2.26.1-0ubuntu5 ProcEnviron: LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: totem Uname: Linux 2.6.28-15-generic i686 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/totem/+bug/421537/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
