Detect orientation of a recorded video in android

Question

I want to make my custom media player and requires orientation info of video (for detecting it is recorded from front or back camera). for jpeg images i can use ExifInterface.TAG_ORIENTATION but for video how i can find this information.

I tried to grab frame from video file and convert it into jpeg but again it always provides orientation 0 in all cases.

Please help me. Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Api level 17 later, we can extract the orientation of video: MediaMetadataRetriever

MediaMetadataRetriever m = new MediaMetadataRetriever();

m.setDataSource(path);
Bitmap thumbnail = m.getFrameAtTime();
//
if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= 17) {
    String s = m.extractMetadata(MediaMetadataRetriever.METADATA_KEY_VIDEO_ROTATION);

    Log.e("Rotation", s);
}