[Mister2]

Wow,

Love the BB Pearl - but sometimes wish I could rotate (or that the BB would automatically rotate) video image so that it would fill the screen.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

[viperboy]

Nope. Not that I've found. I pressed every button, and nothing.

[neilwick]

You'd have to rotate it before copying it to the BlackBerry. Here's a free progam which I haven't tried: FREE Video & DVD Software: rotate or flip video files

[Mister2]

Thanks for the link. Maybe the auto-rotate feature will be added sometime...

I think my old Windowsmobile vs. 3 would do it automatically in media player - so it can't be that big of a deal.

This program is a decent workaround for sure.

Thanks again.

[bradytimes]

Here's a command-line script that will rotate and resize all videos in a folder.

Create a new batch file (e.g. C:/rotate.bat) containing the two lines below:

mkdir blackberry
for /f "delims=" %%i in ('dir /b /a-d-h-s') do "C:\Program Files\SMPlayer\mencoder.exe" "%%i" -ovc lavc -oac mp3lame -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:mbd=2:trell:vbitrate=128:abitrate=128 -vf scale=320:-3,rotate=1 -o "blackberry\%%i"

Run the batch from within the directory containing the files you want to convert. This will create a new folder called 'blackberry', which will contain the new videos.

Here's an example:

C:\original_videos>C:\resize.bat

These videos look great on my Pearl 8220 (340x240 screen). If your phone has a different resolution, you should modify '320' to the resolution of your phone. If you don't want/require the rotation, just remove ',rotate=1'

Note: This script requires MPlayer, which can be downloaded at mplayerhq[dot]hu. Installing it can be tricky. If any of you get it working, I'm sure the newbies would appreciate a follow-up post on how to do this.

[mjesenovec]

wow. nice tip!