Sideways (revisited)

This time a friend sent me a video that was recorded sideways on an iPhone. I first tried the same mencoder command I tried for an AVI file and that didn't work. Then I googled it and found lots of people using AVIDemux. This worked great. The thing to keep in mind is that you can't just copy the stream. You have to set up a rotate filter and then convert to video format so that it gets decoded and reencoded. I chose mpeg4 and it worked great. The quality was very good and the file size even shrunk about about 30-40%.