[APP MOD] VideoPlayer.apk Rotate Video without Auto-Rotation!

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Hello

Description
Since some time Samsung made it possible to see videos in portrait. That's a nice feature, but the only problem is that, if you don't have auto-rotate on, the player will be stuck on portrait and you'll have to return, then activate auto-rotate, and re-open the video. It's quite annoying(for me) so I decided to edit VideoPlayer.apk to disable auto-rotation, but maintaining the feature to rotate the screen. Since I personally don't use SRS effects I decided to replace that with a button that would rotate the screen. So if you click on that button and you're on portrait, you get to landscape and the opposite.

It has another advantage over Auto-rotate: if you want to look at a landscape video but you're in a position between the two, with auto rotate it'll sometimes go to portrait, with this it won't.

So, what does it look like?


I would appreciate if some designer could make an icon for it or even give me a good one! Dimensions of the image are 110x76 for Landscape and 90x74 for portrait(thanks in advance!).

If you need:
If you need SRS effects, leave a message and I will see what I can do. I removed it because I personally don't use it but I don't know if many people need it.

If you need other rotations(landscape-reversed, portrait-reversed), also leave a message. I can easily include them, I just need to know if some people need those.

Compatibility
It should work on every Samsung ROM(maybe not future upgrades), I'm personally using Batista 2.3 and used the VideoPlayer.apk from it as a source. Leave feedback if it's working/crashing or not please .


Developers/Themers
If you want to include this in your ROM or theme/edit this, no problem. Just leave a little credit .

Installation
I am not responsable from anything that could happen.
Two methods :
1. Replace manually the APK downloaded from below and paste it in /system/app and confirm the replacement of VideoPlayer.apk with a explorer that has Root functionality, like Root Explorer or the new FileSlick.
2. Install the CWM-VideoPlayer Via CWM/Recovery(Thanks Rawat for CWM-script!).

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Awesome. I have the same trouble all the time. Great fix...

Sent from my GT-I9100 using xda premium

Hmm, not much interest ? CWM-Script added, thanks Rawat !

This is great, well done

This would go in this section, no?

Originally Posted by Killer Bee

This would go in this section, no?

I don't really know, they don't define "development"! Reenginering is development for me(SMALI). If it's only for ROMs then yes I guess it should be moved.

" [READ] Only actual DEV, GUIDE, HOWTO, HACK, MOD, APP & FIX topics allowed in DEV area" <- This seems to fit !

Originally Posted by EleCtrOx666

Hmm, not much interest ? If someone can help me create a CWM script, would be kind!

Here's a basic update.zip which overwrites it with your modded app.

I would have made a more fancy one that renames the old one to videos.apk.bak , but I'm just feeling too tired right now

Originally Posted by Killer Bee

This would go in this section, no?

umm, abolutely not.. well done on the good work, hope this is a mod other ppl will enjoy.. especially watching *videos in bed

plzz put SRS effect too... coz many users use it...

can u plzzzz make another mod with SRS not removed, as i see videos in landscape mode only and i dont need to see in portrait..

thanx..thanx... thanx a lot..

For some reason this did not work for me.
Could you simply change the name of the Activity so that this is considered another application. Then we can choose witch app to use for videos (the original, or yours), and put the tick for using it every time if we like it.
Thank you in advance!