The EXIF data as used in places like JPEG files has an a ORIENTATION field which tells software whether to display it in landscape or portrait mode.
I would like to know how to display a video in the JW Player in portrait mode.
I am shooting a Nikon D7000 which uses H265 in a MOV container.
Has any thought been given to providing a configurable option to enable this? Even if your player can't decode the MOV header (I know there are some Flash limitations here), I've seen it done in with a modified Flowplayer to just pass in an orientation value and have it rotate the playback viewport. Would love to see this in JW Player so I could have a choice in which player to use (since JW seems to be so much better in other ways).
Thought has been given, this is currently in the feature backlog: http://developer.longtailvideo.com/trac/ticket/1267
Are there any updates on this? We're planning to use JW Player as a front end to videos uploaded from iOS devices. Out of the 4 orientations we only confirmed 1 (landscape left) to work with JW Player.
Are you using the latest version of JW Player? In 5.7, we did add a feature that detects the rotation metadata from iPhone videos.
The setting to do the rotation manually is not yet scheduled for a release.
Unfortunately the player doesn't have a way to distinguish between portrait/landscape.