iPhone AVFoundation camera orientation

Question

I\'ve been tearing my hair out trying to get the AVFoundation camera to capture a picture in the correct orientation (i.e. the device orientation) but I can\'t get it to wor

Answer 1

there are two things to notice

a) as Brian King wrote - LandscapeRight and LandscapeLeft are swapped in the enumeration. see AVCamCaptureManager example:

// AVCapture and UIDevice have opposite meanings for landscape left and right (AVCapture orientation is the same as UIInterfaceOrientation)
else if (deviceOrientation == UIDeviceOrientationLandscapeLeft)
    orientation = AVCaptureVideoOrientationLandscapeRight;
else if (deviceOrientation == UIDeviceOrientationLandscapeRight)
    orientation = AVCaptureVideoOrientationLandscapeLeft;

b) There are also UIDeviceOrientationFaceUp and UIDeviceOrientationFaceDown states, that if you try to set as the video orientation, your video will fail recording. Make sure you don't use them when calling [UIDevice currentDevice].orientation !