How to extract orientation information from videos?

Question

After surfing through tons of documentation on the web it seems that the iPhone always shoots the video at a 480x360 aspect ratio and applies a transformation matrix on the

Answer 1

Similar to @HdN8's answer, but without the python regex:

$ ffprobe   -show_streams any.MOV  2>/dev/null  | grep rotate
TAG:rotate=180

Or JSON:

$ ffprobe -of json  -show_streams IMG_8738.MOV  2>/dev/null  | grep rotate
"rotate": "180",

Or you could parse the JSON (or other output format).