Android : Video wont rotate?

[FatRakoon]

This is on Android, and it does it on all my Android phones, and irritatingly not on the Blackberry or Windows phones, but I only use them for fun.
It does it on the Note 3, Note 5, and S7 Edge, although I have thankfully sent that junk back.

This has nothing to do with screen rotation as such, because for all the things I normally use, the screen rotates just fine.

But, when I am trying to play back a video, it will only display it upright.

What I mean, is that the video itself is a wide-screen video, and it shows the full video, but it wont show it landscape, only portrait and so I end up with a screen thats only just over an inch high with 2 inch top and bottom borders.

This did this before and the solution was to reset the phone. I have now had to reset the phone probably 12 or more times, and its getting boring now because the solution is only temporary.

Seems a bit drastic to have to reset the phone every time it does it and so I was wondering if there is any solution?

It does this no matter what video player I use.

Anyone?

 

[Orcvader]

Is this a local video or from something like Facebook? I know there's a bug with Facebook where it locks the screen to portrait for some daft reason. I swapped the app for Swipe Pro which works very nice.

If local video, using MX Player have you tried going to Settings -> Player -> Orientation -> Landscape?

If from a webpage, what browser are you using?

 

[FatRakoon]

Thanks for getting in touch...

No, they are local videos.

Sourced from various places, to watch later on, so sure, some are ripped from FaceBook, but also I have a few por... Er... Educational Documentaries and films that I have converted myself.

Settings - yes, I have looked at the settings in all my players and some have better or more settings than others, but where I can, they are all set to landscape but this does nothing?

When browsing, I use FireFox mostly and that does default to displaying the video small, similar to the way that other videos are doing, but I can get it to view fullscreen and it does rotate properly and so thats not a problem.

 

[Orcvader]

A bit obvious but have you made sure the videos are landscape on a PC?

What players have you tried?

Although having a quick search on Google it seems to be a random bug that does crop up every now and then for some Samsung users, could be a rare TouchWiz bug. Did you try clearing the cache partition on your phone via recovery?

 

[mrk]

I don;t understand what the problem is here. System prioritised rotation behaviour is standard, unless there's an option to ignore system orientation.

By default all videos will play full screen when launched in a video app (stock or otherwise). If you have auto-rotate on, then simply rotate the phone and it will fill the screen in landscape. If you have portrait orientation locked, the you need to press the rotate button on the OSD of your video player to manually landscape the video.

If what you mean is that the video goes into landscape, but remains a small rectangle, then this is an option in your video player for the aspect/zoom ratio. It should be set to fit the screen size within the aspect ratio.

If the video itself landscape, and you're in portrait mode, then it won't flip the video to landscape , it will play it in portrait mode, but the video will just fill the width of the screen which is normal.

I get the feeling what you're looking for is a "landscape orientation lock for video", which some video player apps have like MX Player I think. Although I don't know why you don't just rotate the screen or press the screen rotate button on the player's OSD anyway. All options mean you still have to do an action, as in rotate the phone to landscape the view the video anyway.

Even YouTube won't play automatically in landscape mode for landscape videos until you turn the phone sideways or press the full screen button on the OSD. This is totally normal and logical behaviour.

Your previous phones were not "Junk"...

 

[FatRakoon]

A bit obvious but have you made sure the videos are landscape on a PC?

LOL yes, the videos are all widescreen, but it does not matter what they are, they simply wont play Landscape.

What players have you tried?

I have tried fair few.

MX, KMP, VLC, ES Media Player, IPTV Extreme, plus the stock one in the phone.
They all play the videos the same way no matter what settings I try forcing

Did you try clearing the cache partition on your phone via recovery?

Samsung eh?
Clear the Cache? No, I have not. Unless restoring the phone is what you mean, and then yes I have. It cures it for a short time. Days at best.

I don;t understand what the problem is here. System prioritised rotation behaviour is standard, unless there's an option to ignore system orientation.

By default all videos will play full screen when launched in a video app (stock or otherwise). If you have auto-rotate on, then simply rotate the phone and it will fill the screen in landscape. If you have portrait orientation locked, the you need to press the rotate button on the OSD of your video player to manually landscape the video.

If what you mean is that the video goes into landscape, but remains a small rectangle, then this is an option in your video player for the aspect/zoom ratio. It should be set to fit the screen size within the aspect ratio.

If the video itself landscape, and you're in portrait mode, then it won't flip the video to landscape , it will play it in portrait mode, but the video will just fill the width of the screen which is normal.

I get the feeling what you're looking for is a "landscape orientation lock for video", which some video player apps have like MX Player I think. Although I don't know why you don't just rotate the screen or press the screen rotate button on the player's OSD anyway. All options mean you still have to do an action, as in rotate the phone to landscape the view the video anyway.

Even YouTube won't play automatically in landscape mode for landscape videos until you turn the phone sideways or press the full screen button on the OSD. This is totally normal and logical behaviour.

Your previous phones were not "Junk"...

Absolutely everything you said I have already tried, and I find that you telling me to simply tip it on its side a bit ridiculous... I certainly hope you dont think that I have not tried that, because I have, and the video does not rotate, it stays on its side. I have already said that rotating he phone does nothing.

The way this phone has been doing this, is NOT normal behaviour... Its stopped doing that and I dont know why?

Oh and the others are not my previous phones. I am a prat who always likes to have every phone I can just so I can play about with them and have a bit of fun. The Windows phones and the Blackberries I still have. I just have them on PAYG while my Notes are contract.

 

[mrk]

I can't imagine all of those Android phones have the same fault though. That's why I went along with the thought that something must be consistent with the user across those devices, be it another app causing it, or something else.

I just find it hard to believe all of those device, which just happen to be Android, have the exact same fault. There isn't any logic in that, so I think it's an app you have installed that's causing the issue.

 

[FatRakoon]

I agree to a point.

Now, the two Notes that I have, both have this issue. The S7 I sent back cos I dont rate it as much as I thought I would.

I have tablets too, and a couple of them are Samsung, but they do NOT seem to have this issue.

I only have the issue on 2 phones, so when you say "all of those android phones" you mean Both?

Sorry if I made out that it is on loads of them, its not. Although it did also do it on the S7 after a week or so!

Could it be an app I put on? Absolutely it could yes, but which one I dont know? The phone works great one day and then does not the next, plus, I have two GMail accounts and the Samsung account that I use to backup to and restore from and I use these 3 accounts for all devices that will use them, but like I said, the tablets dont have this issue, only the phones.