Is it possible to rotate an Android VideoView?

Question

Suppose I want to play a video upside down or sideways on a Google TV. Is there any way to do this on Android?

Answer 1

In this discussion, Les Vogel (from Google) writes:

No

And as far as I can tell this is the only valid answer as of today.

The Media Effects framework mentioned in the other answer does not appear to apply to video.

Answer 2

Yes. What you are looking for is the Media Effects framework: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/media/effect/package-summary.html

It allows you to apply a variety of effects to images and video.

Answer 3

VideoView does not support rotation of video even if composition matrix is set correctly and rotation attribute is used.

What you can do is to use TextureView and set its attribute rotation="90" (for example). It then will rotate the frames but the aspect ratio is something that you need to handle your self. In order to do so you can use textTureView.setScaleX((screenHeight * 1.0f) / screenWidth)

More details are here: Rotating an android VideoView