@andreaSC, thanks for sharing the details on how you attempted to rotate the display. Let me check if automatic rotation is done on a software level on an x86 machine. If so, I’ll take a look on it and apply fixes.
@andreaSC, I tried changing the rotation setting (90 degress) via GRUB. I tried switching to terminal mode and it worked. I tried playing videos on host via ffplay (I installed ffmpeg) and it still plays in landscape.
I tried running ffplay -fs -loop 0 -vf “transpose=1” /path/to/video.mp4 and the video now plays in portrait.
I can confirm that this is a software-level issue. I’ll keep you posted for more details and updates.
Thank you for your patience.
thank you @nicomiguelino
Grazie mille, attendo anche io aggiornamenti.
@caimano, @andreaSC
I’m currently other relevant tasks on the side but I wanted to share the link to the pull request that I’m working on—feat: add support for rotating content (videos, images, web pages) by nicomiguelino · Pull Request #2568 · Screenly/Anthias · GitHub.
I’m planning to add support for rotating content via the web UI. This means that I have to make changes to the web interface and the web view.
If you have a GitHub account, feel free to add comments there as well. It doesn’t have to be low-level. It can be functional suggestions.
I’ll keep you posted.
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@caimano, @andreaSC I played around with different configurations for video playback but it still plays the video in landscape. I haven’t fixed rotation issues for the images yet.
I’ll keep you posted.
Thanks for the update.
thanks a lot for your work @nicomiguelino
I have exact the same problems as caimano, installed Bullseye lite on a 4B, then installed Anthias via terminal, changed the config.txt the same way.
Anthias is now running portrait (anti-clockwise), but it does not play videos (1080x1920), does not display pictures neither URLs. It just shows the logo screen, occasionally the screen flickers black/white, then again the logo.
maybe i found something: in the folder /home/user/.screenly you will find the screenly.conf. It seems that there are stored the preferences you can option in the settings menu (Date format, Player name etc). But there is a setting you can’t option for named ‘resolution’. It is set to 1920x1080. I changed it to 1080x1920 and now the player is working at least its showing pictures! In correct portrait orientation! But still no videos displayed. And an URL, but not for 10 seconds, only very short, and only for one time. Hope this helps a bit, seems that basically the player runs after changing this setting. Now perhaps we should concentrate on the video player settings itself??
Keep up the good work, nicomiguelino ! Thank you very much !
Thanks, @piroer. I’ll take note of that.
Hi @nicomiguelino , Happy New Year!. Do you have any updates on this issue? Thanks.
informative, thanks for sharing . good one
@caimano, thank you for following up. I’m still jumping between tasks in Anthias but I’m still keeping an eye on this one.
@nicomiguelino. Hi, I replaced 25 of my older RPI 3 model B+ with new RPI 4 8GB. I’ve found the PI 4 (after testing one with Anthias for about 2 months) to be much faster than the older PI 3 model B+, both during setup and when playing content. I’d like to take full advantage of the device, but also with videos. Any news on the tests to resolve the vertical video issue? Thanks a lot, and keep up the good work.
@caimano, there aren’t any news yet, but feel free to share your thoughts here if something comes up. Thank you as well.