Tricking your iPhone to play TV shows and movies in portrait view

hah I thought I was the only person who knew the on-the-go-playlist-with-one-audio trick to get videos to play in portrait - it's ALSO useful for when you want to be able to *listen* to a video/ music video while using another app - just add one music track, play it, quit iPod and then use the music control (I've enabled double-tap home screen) and you're then listening to the video and can do something else with your eyes.

oh thats right michael, you wife's dead

So, there are people that actually want to make the videos on the relatively small iPhone display even smaller? May I suggest a iPod nano for a even tinier viewing experience?

@J Dogg.

Hold the phone so it goes into landscape mode and then when lying on ur side in bed, ensure that the dock side of the phone is facing upwards. The screen wont change to portrait mode that way.

Or just put it in a playlist...

Here's what I'd like to figure out. I make commercials, and occasionally my clients are out of the office and want to review a spot for air on their iphones. Quicktime 7 allows me to export video for iphone that I drag into an email and send to my client. It works GREAT - except that the movies will ONLY play in portrait mode and never landscape.

Quicktime X removed this export functionality and only allows mobileme, youtube uploading, which isn't a good idea when you're dealing with national commercials.

Any ideas how I can get the iphone friendly quicktimes to play in landscape when emailed?

I found out that if you just put the video into a playlist with at least 1 song, you can go through the playlist and then watch in portrait or landscape, whichever strikes your fancy

I second jj.wendt. You don't need to put an audio track in the playlist, and you can even play video in the background while you use other apps this way (play, press home button, press sleep button, double click home button to bring up iPod interface on the lock screen, press play again, then you're free to unlock and so-called "multitask").

Arrested Development = Best Show Ever.

If you put video in an "On the Go" playlist you can do the same without ever having to change type or sync with iTunes.