Scrcpy: Anyway to manually rotate scrcpy view on PC without changing orientation on phone ?

[jayachar88]

From this other issue report (https://github.com/Genymobile/scrcpy/issues/2), I learnt that some Camera apps don't reinitialize (and thus scrcpy I presume doesn't detect orientation change), when shooting in landscape mode (when phone was initially in portrait orientation).

Is there some possibility to manually force only the view on PC to rotate (to landscape orientation), without impacting the device orientation ?

This will allow scrcpy view for camera (default camera app on stock Android) to show correct orientation. If camera app is closed and another app is started, I believe scrcpy can detect the right orientation to display, over-riding the previous manual view (not device) orientation change.

[vctls]

I used the desktop orientation as a workaround. It's not exactly practical, especially since it seems there aren't any keyboard shortcut to do that on my PC, but hey, it works.

[diyism]

Upvote this Feature Request, because:
Some video game is played in landscape mode without rotating my phone screen.
ie. I roated my phone body before play the game but without show me the animation of rotating the game window, i think it's a better experience for game players.
But when I scrcpy my phone screen onto my PC(ubuntu), the game window is in portrait mode.

So I wish to rotate the scrcpy output screen on my PC,
for example, we can add "--output-orientation" or abbr "--oo" to scrcpy command:
scrcpy --oo 0 //default orientation
scrcpy --oo 1 //rotate 90 degrees
scrcpy --oo 2 //rotate 180 degrees
scrcpy --oo 3 //rotate 270 degrees

[dre-z17]

I used the desktop orientation as a workaround. It's not exactly practical, especially since it seems there aren't any keyboard shortcut to do that on my PC, but hey, it works.

Thank you for the idea. Since I use dual monitors your idea is a fast workable workaround for the meantime for recording and seeing landscaped videos properly as they are recording.

Another option for me when I need to record landscaped videos is to use Open Camera. The image is displayed correctly on screen but unfortunately records in portrait mode, regardless of phone orientation. But post-recording editing flips the videos back into landscape layout. Is an extra step but better than not being able to see recorded landscaped videos in proper layout while recording if all a person has is a single monitor.

Scrcpy has not run into rotation issues on my phone in any other type of app so far. Only camera apps. Looking forward to this forced rotation of the PC window without affecting the cellphone itself.

[Stamoulohta]

Created a pull request #1151 for the orientation (client) feature.

Cheers :)

[rom1v]

A new option --lock-video-orientation has been implemented on dev branch, by #1151. :tada:

[rom1v]

Please review #1274, which adds Ctrl+← and Ctrl+→ shortcuts to rotate the scrcpy window.

[rom1v]

Released in v1.13.

[diyism]

wget https://github.com/Genymobile/scrcpy/archive/v1.13.tar.gz
wget https://github.com/Genymobile/scrcpy/releases/download/v1.13/scrcpy-server-v1.13
tar -xzpf v1.13.tar.gz
cd scrcpy-1.13
meson x --buildtype release --strip -Db_lto=true -Dprebuilt_server=../scrcpy-server-v1.13
ninja -Cx
sudo ninja -Cx install
adb connect 192.168.0.122   #my cellphone ip
scrcpy
ctrl+→

The screen orientation on my computer is OK now.

Great thanks to @Stamoulohta for this client-only rotation feature.

[rom1v]

The screen orientation on my computer is OK now.

@diyism Glad that your problem is solved :)

Great thanks to @Stamoulohta for this client-only rotation feature.

@Stamoulohta did a great work on mirroring orientation (#1151 --lock-video-orientation, that you could use instead if you want to record your game in the correct orientation), but I did the client-only rotation feature (#1274 --rotation, Ctrl+← and Ctrl+→) :wink:

[diyism]

Haha, thank you for your fantastic work! @rom1v