I am using AVFoundation classes to implement a custom camera in my app. I am only capturing still images, not video. I have everything working but am stumped by something. I take into account the device orientation when a still image is captured and set the videoOrientation of the video connection appropriately. A code snippet:
// set the videoOrientation based on the device orientation to
// ensure the pic is right side up for all orientations
AVCaptureVideoOrientation videoOrientation;
switch ([UIDevice currentDevice].orientation) {
case UIDeviceOrientationLandscapeLeft:
// Not clear why but the landscape orientations are reversed
// if I use AVCaptureVideoOrientationLandscapeLeft here the pic ends up upside down
videoOrientation = AVCaptureVideoOrientationLandscapeRight;
break;
case UIDeviceOrientationLandscapeRight:
// Not clear why but the landscape orientations are reversed
// if I use AVCaptureVideoOrientationLandscapeRight here the pic ends up upside down
videoOrientation = AVCaptureVideoOrientationLandscapeLeft;
break;
case UIDeviceOrientationPortraitUpsideDown:
videoOrientation = AVCaptureVideoOrientationPortraitUpsideDown;
break;
default:
videoOrientation = AVCaptureVideoOrientationPortrait;
break;
}
videoConnection.videoOrientation = videoOrientation;
Note my comments in the landscape cases. I have to reverse the orientation mapping or the resulting image is upside down. I capture and save the image with the following code:
[self.stillImageOutput captureStillImageAsynchronouslyFromConnection:videoConnection
completionHandler:^(CMSampleBufferRef imageSampleBuffer, NSError *error)
{
NSData *imageData = [AVCaptureStillImageOutput jpegStillImageNSDataRepresentation:imageSampleBuffer];
self.stillImage = [UIImage imageWithData:imageData];
// notify observers (image gets saved to the camera roll)
[[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] postNotificationName:CaptureSessionManagerDidCaptureStillImageNotification object:self];
self.stillImage = nil;
}];
There is no other image processing or manipulation.
My app works with the code above. I'm just trying to understand why the orientation constants must be reversed for landscape orientations. Thanks!