Landscape in AvCam iOS 6 - iphone

Question

I am new to iOS, trying to create custom camera using AvCam. I am having trouble getting landscape orientation preview -- it rotates the view 90 degree clockwise and shows it on a half screen.
I get this message --
WARNING: -[ setOrientation:] is deprecated.
Please use AVCaptureConnection's -setVideoOrientation:
AVCaptureConnection already sets orientation, so I have no clue what am I supposed else.
I know this question was asked lots of times for previous versions of iOS (4,5), but non of those techniques/codes worked for me (iOS 6).
Original code (did not make any changes from Apple)
if ([self captureManager] == nil) {
AVCamCaptureManager *manager = [[AVCamCaptureManager alloc] init];
[self setCaptureManager:manager];
[manager release];
[[self captureManager] setDelegate:self];
if ([[self captureManager] setupSession]) {
// Create video preview layer and add it to the UI
AVCaptureVideoPreviewLayer *newCaptureVideoPreviewLayer = [[AVCaptureVideoPreviewLayer alloc] initWithSession:[[self captureManager] session]];
UIView *view = [self videoPreviewView];
CALayer *viewLayer = [view layer];
[viewLayer setMasksToBounds:YES];
CGRect bounds = [view bounds];
[newCaptureVideoPreviewLayer setFrame:bounds];
if ([newCaptureVideoPreviewLayer isOrientationSupported]) {
[newCaptureVideoPreviewLayer setOrientation:AVCaptureVideoOrientationPortrait];
}
[newCaptureVideoPreviewLayer setVideoGravity:AVLayerVideoGravityResizeAspectFill];
[viewLayer insertSublayer:newCaptureVideoPreviewLayer below:[[viewLayer sublayers] objectAtIndex:0]];
[self setCaptureVideoPreviewLayer:newCaptureVideoPreviewLayer];
AVCaptureConnection chunk:
-(void)startRecordingWithOrientation:(AVCaptureVideoOrientation)videoOrientation; {
AVCaptureConnection *videoConnection = [AVCamUtilities connectionWithMediaType:AVMediaTypeVideo fromConnections:[[self movieFileOutput] connections]];
if ([videoConnection isVideoOrientationSupported])
[videoConnection setVideoOrientation:videoOrientation];
[[self movieFileOutput] startRecordingToOutputFileURL:[self outputFileURL] recordingDelegate:self];
}

Answer 1

Last time i also stumbled upon this issue. I solved this problem by doing two things
Getting the right orientation
Replace
if ([newCaptureVideoPreviewLayer isOrientationSupported]) {
[newCaptureVideoPreviewLayer setOrientation:AVCaptureVideoOrientationPortrait];
}
With
if ([newCaptureVideoPreviewLayer.connection isVideoOrientationSupported]) {
[newCaptureVideoPreviewLayer.connection setVideoOrientation:[UIDevice currentDevice].orientation];
}
Force the update of the video orientation during the initialization to catch video output in landscape mode by triggering
- (void)deviceOrientationDidChange manually within AVCaptureManager.m
I added it to:
- (BOOL) setupSession
{
BOOL success = NO;
...
AVCamRecorder *newRecorder = [[AVCamRecorder alloc] initWithSession:[self session] outputFileURL:self.lastOutputfileURL];
[newRecorder setDelegate:self];
[self performSelector:#selector(deviceOrientationDidChange)];
...
return success;
}

Answer 2

So, here's a workaround, but I am sure that there must be better solution than this. I got part of the code from this question :
iPhone App - Show AVFoundation video on landscape mode
But had to adjust frame for every orientation in order to make it work on iOS6 (and it still shows a warning):
-(void)willAnimateRotationToInterfaceOrientation:
(UIInterfaceOrientation)toInterfaceOrientation
duration:(NSTimeInterval)duration {
[CATransaction begin];
if (toInterfaceOrientation==UIInterfaceOrientationLandscapeLeft){
captureVideoPreviewLayer.orientation = UIInterfaceOrientationLandscapeLeft;
captureVideoPreviewLayer.frame = CGRectMake(0, 0, 480, 320);
} else if (toInterfaceOrientation==UIInterfaceOrientationPortrait){
captureVideoPreviewLayer.orientation = UIInterfaceOrientationPortrait;
captureVideoPreviewLayer.frame = CGRectMake(0, 0, 320, 480);
} else if (toInterfaceOrientation==UIInterfaceOrientationLandscapeRight){
captureVideoPreviewLayer.orientation = UIInterfaceOrientationLandscapeRight;
captureVideoPreviewLayer.frame = CGRectMake(0, 0, 480, 320);
}
[CATransaction commit];
[super willAnimateRotationToInterfaceOrientation:toInterfaceOrientation duration:duration];
}