Rotate

[frodes]

When viewing pictures, is there some quick way to rotate the image? I can use the mouse and right-click, but I want to be able to use the remote control.

[zswman]

Hit the 'info' button on your MCE remote & you'll get a menu that includes "rotate"

[frodes]

Originally Posted by zswman

Hit the 'info' button on your MCE remote & you'll get a menu that includes "rotate"

This is the remote I have : How to connect my remote?


I've just got it working. I'll have to try different buttons tomorrow. (media center pc is shut down for the night, and my son is sleeping there right now). Do you know what button I'll have to press?

[zswman]

frodes: sorry, I'm not familiar w/ that remote, but it seems like you have an .ini file where you can define your keypresses so it seems capable of the function. MCS "info" button is equivalent to a "show context menu" (which is keyboard F9 in MP - see the complete list of keyboard mapping here http://wiki.team-mediaportal.com/KeyboardShortcuts).

[frodes]

Originally Posted by zswman

frodes: sorry, I'm not familiar w/ that remote, but it seems like you have an .ini file where you can define your keypresses so it seems capable of the function. MCS "info" button is equivalent to a "show context menu" (which is keyboard F9 in MP - see the complete list of keyboard mapping here http://wiki.team-mediaportal.com/KeyboardShortcuts).

Thank you very mouch!

This probably is all I need. I tried 10 min earlier today, the little red button rotates, but being able to bring up the info screen is usefull too.

I will find some button to program F9, guess that will do the trick.

EDIT :

I still have two questions about pictures. Don't really know if this is the right place to post it, but here goes :

When I zoom in, it seems it does not zoom completely out, so when I zoom out all the way, key right, left, up, down moves the picture, it does not go to next image. Understand what I mean?

and.. Sometimes, when i browse the pictures, pressing right for next image, it seems to register two keystrokes. It shows me the next image for just a very short time, and goes to the next one. I then have to go one back to watch it.
Why is this, and what can I do to it?

[Doron]

When pictures come from new cameras, MP rotates them automatically.
The reason MP did not do it in your case is probably because the EXIF orientation is not set correctly in this picture.

Assuming your pictures are jpg's, do the following to set the orintation:
Download EXIV2 from http://www.exiv2.org/download.html and extract the file EXIV2.exe.
Now if for example your picture name is "c:\pictures\mypic.jpg", you can rotate the picture to position 6 (upper-right) as follows:

EXIV2 "c:\pictures\mypic.jpg" -M"set Exif.Image.Orientation 6"

The possible orientations are:
1 Upper Left
3 Lower Right
6 Upper Right
8 Lower Left

Note that you may need to rename or copy the picture since for some reason MP sometimes remembers the old orientation.