videos displaying upside down, sideways

[bj nick]

Hi, this site was recommended to me as a place where someone might be able to help me with this problem. I download video onto my computer (Windows 7) from my Canon ZS3 camera, as well as from the iphone. The videos often will come up displaying sideways or upside down. I have looked around but can find no setting anywhere that will let me at least rotate the videos.......of course it would be better if I didn't have the issue in the first place.

I was told this may be a codec issue, but I have no idea how to proceed. Anyone know how to fix this? Thanks!

[Verify]

You might take a look at iRotate: http://entechtaiwan.com/util/irotate.shtm it will rotate the whole desktop by multiples of 90 degrees (including the mouse pointer direction - makes it interesting to use : ) it is free for personal use.

[TreeTops]

Could it be the way you hold your camera? If you rotate your camera while videoing it will display sideways on your computer or TV also.

[olyteddy]

If you only want to view them VLC and probably many other third party video players can rotate on playback. To rotate them permanently requires re-encoding them. I'd give AVI DeMux a shot for that.