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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Re: Take 2

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

With a little experimentation, I have three flawlessly rotated videos now. The magic:

mencoder mvi_0521.avi -vf rotate=1 -o output.avi -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mjpeg:mbd=1 -oac copy

Re: Take 2

[zeekar.livejournal.com]

mencoder mvi_0521.avi -vf rotate=1 -o output.avi -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mjpeg:mbd=1 -oac copy

Well, DUH! And people say the UNIX command line is obscure. Tsk.