Does anyone know of an open-source or freeware tool ...

[unixronin]

...that can rotate an AVI file by 90 degrees?  I have a number of video sequences I've shot with my Canon digital camera in portrait mode, but of course the player doesn't know that, and while I have an abundance of tools for losslessly rotating JPEG photos, none of the utilities supplied by Canon, and no other utilities I have, will rotate an AVI movie and save the rotated version.  (I can rotate the movies at playback time with mplayer, but cannot -- to my knowledge -- save them.)

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[suzilem.livejournal.com]

I haven't used this one, and it isn't freeware, but it does have a 15-day free trial....

http://www.blazemp.com/rotate_video.htm

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the tip; I just tried it. Unfortunately, it seems to corrupt every video clip I try to save with compression, and if I save without compression, 6MB of video inflates to 150+MB. There does not appear to be any option to tell it "Just save the thing with whatever compression was originally used."