1Upload the MPG videos that came out the wrong way round.
2Pick a quarter turn or a half turn, or type an arbitrary angle and choose a colour for the corners it will expose.
3Apply the rotation; the pixels and the orientation flag are reconciled so every viewer agrees on which way is up.
4Download the rotated MPG file.
Rotate MPG FAQ
Can I rotate by an arbitrary angle, not just 90 degrees?
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Yes, though the two are different operations underneath. A multiple of 90 degrees rearranges existing data; any other angle has to rebuild the grid and fill the corners, so it costs a resample and usually wants a background colour choosing.
Does the format decide whether rotation is lossless?
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It does. MPG is the same MPEG-1/2 program stream under the shorter extension, still the format of DVD-era captures. That property is exactly what determines whether a quarter turn is free or costs a re-encode.
Why does my file look correct on my phone but sideways elsewhere?
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Because the orientation is stored as an EXIF flag rather than in the pixels, and not every viewer honours it. Rotating here normalises the two — the pixels and the flag end up agreeing, so the file looks the same everywhere.
Can I rotate a whole batch in one go?
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Yes. The same rotation is applied across every file you upload, which is the practical fix for a folder of scans or camera output that all came in the wrong way round.
Will Rotate MPG lower the quality of my MPG videos?
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It depends on whether the job needs a re-encode. Operations that only touch the container or the timeline are done as a stream copy and the picture is bit-identical to the source. Anything that has to redraw frames goes through x264/x265 at a quality level you set, where CRF 23 is visually transparent on most footage.
What happens to audio, subtitle and chapter tracks?
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They are carried across. Multi-track audio, embedded subtitle tracks and chapter markers survive wherever the target container can represent them — that is the main thing that separates a proper job from a naive re-encode that silently keeps only track one.
Does Rotate MPG cost anything?
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No. Rotate MPG is free without an account, and the output carries no watermark, no corner logo and no intro card. Uploaded video is deleted from the workers shortly after the job completes.
What can I upload to Rotate MPG?
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MP4, MOV, MKV, WebM, AVI, WMV, FLV, 3GP, M4V, MPEG and MPG. The container and codec are probed before anything runs, so a mixed batch is handled correctly per file rather than assumed to be uniform.
Why does a PDF site host Rotate MPG?
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PDF.to exists because PDF is where documents go to be shared and the worst place to keep them while they are still being worked on, so nearly every job here is about getting something into or out of that state deliberately. A document rarely arrives in the state it needs to leave in: it is too big, in the wrong order, locked, or a scan with no text in it. Rotate MPG sits on the same upload and the same account as the conversions because those jobs turn up together.
What should I do with the result once Rotate MPG is finished?
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The converter on this site moves documents between PDF, Word, images, plain text and eBook formats in either direction, so whatever comes out of a tool here has somewhere to go next without a second upload. Running that after Rotate MPG rather than before keeps the document structure intact through the step that is most likely to flatten it.
Is Rotate MPG here the same tool the sibling sites run?
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The engines are shared — the same document toolchain, the same workers, the same limits. What a PDF site adds is a view on when a file should stay a document and when it genuinely wants to become something else, which is the decision most tools quietly make for you. It also starts from one fact about the format this site is named after: a PDF is an object graph, not a page image, so text stays selectable and vectors stay sharp no matter what happens to the raster content inside it.
Do I need an account, and does anything get kept?
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No account, and nothing is kept: uploads are deleted from the workers shortly after the job finishes, nothing is read and nothing is indexed. Free accounts exist for history and batch size, not for access.
