Just a little background.I have built home screen using a background image with buttons drawn in and a clear menu list overtop of the background for a custom button look. This has caused a little issue with rotation. On the screen I have not allowed scrolling so the menu lists and the button graphics do not become miss aligned. That also means I have had to lock the rotation as well. I am also using another screen with RSS feed list for video stream that loads video data automatically to the list. with the rotation locked video playback is currently only portrait, I want to auto change the orientation of the video playback to landscape for better viewing. Is there a way to force landscape video playback? I can get around in Xcode a little, I just need help getting pointed in the right direction, or even a quick solution using another method.

Hi Samme71, I subscribe to this topic because we're in the same boat. Orientation locked will play video's also in portrait mode. Is there a way we can set the orientation per screen? How to edit the code? Thanks in advance. best Regards, Danny

Hi, Investigating this issue and thought that I could solve it. What I'm trying to do is to allow rotation for a specific screen. Doing this with an if construction in BT_rotatingNavController.m see line 62 -- look for the itemid and if it meets that specific itemid canRotate=TRUE This is what I did so far: //should we prevent rotations on small devices? if([appDelegate.rootApp.jsonVars objectForKey:@allowRotation]){ if([[appDelegate.rootApp.jsonVars objectForKey:@allowRotation] isEqualToString:@largeDevicesOnly]){ canRotate = FALSE; if([[appDelegate.rootApp.jsonVars objectForKey:@itemId] isEqualToString:@9F293B8A2FD3BE1715ABC5D]){ canRotate = TRUE; I added this line (as seen within my code above): if([[appDelegate.rootApp.jsonVars objectForKey:@itemId] isEqualToString:@9F293B8A2FD3BE1715ABC5D]){ canRotate = TRUE; UNFORTUNATELY this doesn't work but could someone give a hint to produce the solution. In the meantime I'll investigate further and come up if I have any news on this. best Regards, Danny

Hey Guys- I am having the same problem right now for both the iphone and ipad. I've locked my application in portrait only which causes the videos to remain in portrait as well. I was looking around the xcode files and noticed there isn't a file named BT_screen_video. If you look at the BT_viewControllerManager.m file line 318. It talks about configuring videos. However, my question is, how come there is no BT_video files in my project source code?

Hi, Hope David or someone else comes with a solution. The code you are refering to is for the youtube plugin that isn't (yet) included in the bt-server edition. Best Regards, Danny

Hey Danny & pikpocket, Looks like this might be a common request. Danny, nice try with the code, I'm sorry that didn't work for you. I was thinking along the same lines about just adding the rotate command. I figured it could be added after the command was given to launch the native video player, but I couldn't find it in the code. I hope someone smarter than me can come along and throw us a rope. Good luck to us all, and thanks guys. Mike

Hi all, Hope that a solution comes up. My code example, thinking about it, was not good. Because if that would work the whole app would have the option to rotate. The approach was good. Now we have to find out how and where that code should be placed. This is a call for all geniuses!!!! Best Regards, Danny

Would love a solution to this as well! I really don't want to enable rotation globally for my app as it conflicts with my design.

fixed this. It's quite easy really. Open the video in Quicktime 7x* (Not the version that comes with Lion, cos it's crap). Export to iPhone format (export to web), and it'll create a nice small video that will play in landscape mode, and the rest of your app will stay in portrait mode. * mine is QuickTime Pro. I don't know if the pro version is required to rotate and export like this.