In my case, the command is: ffmpeg -i ~/Videos/aisha.mp4 -vf 'transpose=1' -acodec copy ~/Videos/aisha-rotated.mp4 It will speed up the command quite a lot! (Thanks to Roman Sheydvasser) Add -c copy (or -codec copy) will copy all the frames instead of doing decode -> filter -> encode process. 3 – means rotate by 90 degrees clockwise and flip.2 – means rotate by 90 degrees counterclockwise.1 – means rotate by 90 degrees clockwise.

0 – means rotate by 90 degrees counterclockwise and flip.

In the command, the number in “ transpose=1” can also be: Now you can run the single command to rotate a video: ffmpeg -i input-video.mp4 -vf 'transpose=1' -acodec copy output-video.mp4īefore this command, you may first navigate to the video folder either via cd command (e.g., cd ~/Videos), or in file browser go to the folder and right-click blank area and select “Open in Terminal”.

To make sure, open terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) and run command: It is very popular and most likely already installed on your system, if you have any audio, video, and other multimedia relevant applications installed. FFmpeg is a large suite of libraries and programs for handling multi-media files and streams. Firstly install FFmpeg if you don’t have it.

Vlc rotate video 90 degrees