Detect rotation angle and rotate final video using ffmpeg version 2.8

Question

I used to work on ffmpeg 2.2 until now and was detecting rotation angle of video uploaded from android / iPhone mobiles and rotate the resulting video so that it run perfectly on a correct angle.

But since I have updated the ffmpeg to version 2.8 I am getting this rotation problem. My queries are not rotating the videos as they were earlier.

Here'r the commands I was using:

To check rotation angle:

ffprobe -of json -show_streams {$input} | grep rotate

below is my final command to convert a video to mp4

"ffmpeg -i {$input} -strict -2 -vcodec libx264 -preset slow -vb 500k -maxrate 500k -bufsize 1000k -vf 'scale=-1:480 ".fix_video_orientation($input)."' -threads 0 -ab 64k -s {$resolution}  -movflags faststart -metadata:s:v:0 rotate=0 {$output}";

"fix_video_orientation" function is given below. It detect the angle of rotation of the initial video and output optimal option for rotating the final video.

function fix_video_orientation($input){

$return= ", transpose=1 ";

$dd= exec("ffprobe -of json -show_streams  {$input}   | grep rotate");

if(!empty($dd)){

$dd=explode(":",$dd);
$rotate=str_replace(",","",str_replace('"',"",$dd[1]));

if($rotate=="90")return $return;

else if ($rotate=="180") return ", transpose=2,transpose=2 ";

else if($rotate == "270") return ", transpose=2 ";
}

Currently above script is supporting "flv","avi","mp4","mkv","mpg","wmv","asf","webm","mov","3gp","3gpp" extensions, also the script is supporting the resulting .mp4 file to play on all browsers and devices.

Now the ffprobe command is not returning rotation angle and so a portrait video if uploaded from iphone is showing as landscape on the website.

Output console of ffprobe command:

ffprobe version N-77455-g4707497 Copyright (c) 2007-2015 the FFmpeg developers
built with gcc 4.8 (Ubuntu 4.8.4-2ubuntu1~14.04)
configuration: --extra-libs=-ldl --prefix=/opt/ffmpeg --mandir=/usr/share/man --enable-avresample --disable-debug --enable-nonfree --enable-gpl --enable-version3 --enable-libopencore-amrnb --enable-libopencore-amrwb --disable-decoder=amrnb --disable-decoder=amrwb --enable-libpulse --enable-libdcadec --enable-libfreetype --enable-libx264 --enable-libx265 --enable-libfdk-aac --enable-libvorbis --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libopus --enable-libvpx --enable-libspeex --enable-libass --enable-avisynth --enable-libsoxr --enable-libxvid --enable-libvo-aacenc --enable-libvidstab
libavutil 55. 11.100 / 55. 11.100
libavcodec 57. 20.100 / 57. 20.100
libavformat 57. 20.100 / 57. 20.100
libavdevice 57. 0.100 / 57. 0.100
libavfilter 6. 21.101 / 6. 21.101
libavresample 3. 0. 0 / 3. 0. 0
libswscale 4. 0.100 / 4. 0.100
libswresample 2. 0.101 / 2. 0.101
libpostproc 54. 0.100 / 54. 0.100
Input #0, mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2, from '/standard/PORTRAIT.m4v':
Metadata:
major_brand : qt

minor_version : 0
compatible_brands: qt

creation_time : 2016-02-03 05:25:18
com.apple.quicktime.make: Apple
com.apple.quicktime.model: iPhone 4S
com.apple.quicktime.software: 9.2.1
com.apple.quicktime.creationdate: 2016-02-03T10:52:11+0530
Duration: 00:00:03.34, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 7910 kb/s
Stream #0:0(und): Audio: aac (LC) (mp4a / 0x6134706D), 44100 Hz, mono, fltp, 63 kb/s (default)
Metadata:
creation_time : 2016-02-03 05:25:18
handler_name : Core Media Data Handler
Stream #0:1(und): Video: h264 (Main) (avc1 / 0x31637661), yuv420p(tv, bt709), 720x1280 [SAR 1:1 DAR 9:16], 7832 kb/s, 29.97 fps, 29.97 tbr, 600 tbn, 50 tbc (default)
Metadata:
creation_time : 2016-02-03 05:25:18
handler_name : Core Media Data Handler
encoder : H.264
Stream #0:2(und): Data: none (mebx / 0x7862656D), 0 kb/s (default)
Metadata:
creation_time : 2016-02-03 05:25:18
handler_name : Core Media Data Handler
Stream #0:3(und): Data: none (mebx / 0x7862656D), 0 kb/s (default)
Metadata:
creation_time : 2016-02-03 05:25:18
handler_name : Core Media Data Handler
Unsupported codec with id 0 for input stream 2
Unsupported codec with id 0 for input stream 3

If latest version of ffmpeg (2.8) is used to auto rotate the video, can you please suggest me what option I need to add or remove from my final command.

Answer 1

Try asking this in superuser.com.

ffmpeg -i in.mp4 -c copy -metadata:s:v:0 rotate=0 -an out.mp4

Source: https://superuser.com/questions/1092951/how-to-delete-a-single-metadata-item-from-an-mp4-file