Using handbrake-cli to flip or rotate a video

Filed under: TechNotes — lars @ 09:16:00 am

Ocassionally I shoot a video on my phone or camera that is up-side-down, and I need to rotate it so that it plays back properly in XBMC on my TV.  You can do this using the popular video encoding tool HandBrake - but it's not an option in the gui.  You have to use the command-line.

  1. If you're on linux (I currently am), you'll need to make sure handbrake-cli is installed:

    sudo apt-get install handbrake-cli
  2. Then execute the following:

    HandBrakeCLI -i /path/to/source.mp4 -o /path/to/destination.mp4 --preset=Normal --rotate --vb 8000

    where 8000 is the target bitrate.  (I try to aim for a filesize that is similar to my source).

Happy flipping.

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