Comment by taeric
3 months ago
I mean, I get that it isn't incredibly difficult, but it still feels unnecessary. The cynic in me thinks this explains a bit of why the app based cameras are garbage.
Do you expect the same when recording video if the user rotates the device while recording? Timestamping an orientation flag is trivial. Why not lean on that?
Video that rotates partway through doesn't have a trivial answer for how you're supposed to display it.
For anything that has a consistent orientation, storing it that way removes a bunch of annoying edge cases and is very simple to implement.