Force app to play videos in landscape mode only?

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trailman Aspiring developer Posts: 280 Reg: Dec 10, 2010 Sedona, az 6,550	confirm \| cancel 08/10/11 02:55 PM (14 years ago) Force app to play videos in landscape mode only? Since I don't want to give all my new video content away for free in my new app I'm using the streaming video company bitsontherun.com to host my videos. When i play the videos within my app (using my android phone, not the emulator) the videos will not play correctly in vertical mode. As soon as I switch the phone to horizontal (landscape) mode they play perfectly (well not as perfect as on bitsontherun.com but close enough). How can I force the videos to play in horizontal mode? Using v1.4 of buzztouch for now. I'll look for an answer on google as well. Thanks, Bruce Title Comments Since I don't want to give all my new video content away for free in my new app I'm using the streaming video company bitsontherun.com to host my videos. When i play the videos within my app (using my android phone, not the emulator) the videos will not play correctly in vertical mode. As soon as I switch the phone to horizontal (landscape) mode they play perfectly (well not as perfect as on bitsontherun.com but close enough). How can I force the videos to play in horizontal mode? Using v1.4 of buzztouch for now. I'll look for an answer on google as well. Thanks, Bruce

SWMobile Aspiring developer Posts: 5 Reg: Jun 23, 2011 Birmingham 50	08/10/11 03:01 PM (14 years ago) Hi Bruce, Within Eclipse and the AndroidManifest.xml under <!-- screen activities --> there is a line which will say <activity android:name=.Screen_Video etc. Towards the end of that line it says android:screenOrientation=sensor. If you change the sensor to landscape, that should force the video to play landscape all the time. Comments Hi Bruce, Within Eclipse and the AndroidManifest.xml under <!-- screen activities --> there is a line which will say <activity android:name=.Screen_Video etc. Towards the end of that line it says android:screenOrientation=sensor. If you change the sensor to landscape, that should force the video to play landscape all the time.

trailman Aspiring developer Posts: 280 Reg: Dec 10, 2010 Sedona, az 6,550	08/10/11 03:02 PM (14 years ago) Thank you. Any idea how to do that in Xcode? b Comments Thank you. Any idea how to do that in Xcode? b

trailman Aspiring developer Posts: 280 Reg: Dec 10, 2010 Sedona, az 6,550	08/10/11 04:34 PM (14 years ago) That worked perfect. No need for Xcode fix. For some reason they play fine on the iPhone in portrait mode & landscape mode. Comments That worked perfect. No need for Xcode fix. For some reason they play fine on the iPhone in portrait mode & landscape mode.

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