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More => Old Versions => Media Center 11 (Development Ended) => Topic started by: Soundman on September 19, 2003, 07:41:21 pm

Title: Image Rotation Lossy?
Post by: Soundman on September 19, 2003, 07:41:21 pm

Hi, All.

Does MC9.1 support lossless rotation of images?

I take many pictures holding my camera sideways, but need them rotated back when played back. When I tell MC to rotate the image, it seems to overwrite the file with a new one rotated.  This results in lossy recompression.

Is there a way make MC9 rotate the image as it renders it without actually changing the original file?

Thanks,
Soundman

Title: Re: Image Rotation Lossy?
Post by: JimH on September 19, 2003, 08:21:12 pm

It is lossless rotation.

Title: Re: Image Rotation Lossy?
Post by: Soundman on September 21, 2003, 06:30:32 pm

To JimH

Thanks for the confirmation that it is lossless rotation.

Request: Please make this not modify the timestamp of the file.  I like the timestamp to always be when the picture was taken.

Thanks!
Soundman

Title: Re: Image Rotation Lossy?
Post by: Matt on September 22, 2003, 06:45:13 am

The EXIF tag says when the picture was taken.  MC will read and show that time instead of the disk time.

Title: Re: Image Rotation Lossy?
Post by: Soundman on September 25, 2003, 07:12:00 pm

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The EXIF tag says when the picture was taken.

That's true, but I still like the file timestamp to be correct when I am browsing my files with Windows explorer.  I can probably write a script to read the EXIF tag and set the file timestamp to match, but should I have to do this?