I am almost sure I never told my phone 'take this in portrait' or 'take this in landscape'.

The very important thing to understand is that all those videos were filmed with the same smartphone (galaxy S6), with the same quality. When it opens it in Landscape I usually don't have the interactive zoom problems.

I tried to figure out when it doesn't work and when it does and I figured out that it doesn't work when VLC open my video in 'portrait' mode. Like I indeed have a miniscreen appearing allowing me to do the interactive zoom but I can't change any options of the interactive zoom when enabled (like how much it zoom, on which part of the screen etc). So I will lose some part of the video, on right and left, if I want to rotate it from a 'portrait' format to a landscape one.Īlso, on those video the interactive zoom doesn't work. If I rotate, the video will indeed rotate but will be cut such that the maximum width will still be L. To understand what I mean by cut 'a part of it', consider a video taken with a phone in portrait mode, lets say width L and height H. On some videos, the predefined rotations (like 90, 270, etc degrees) simply don't work (it doesn't change at all the video).Īnd when I manually rotate using the rotation button, it will indeed rotate the video but cut a part of it. I have two different problems closely linked.

Video rotate in vlc