To take care of the second, there’s a plugin we’ve built aplugin, BuddyPress Media. Do check it out. It’ll sort out the uploading and sharing of media.
I am from the team that develops BuddyPress Media. Like @shanebp says, the rotation data is stored in the exif data. Generally, most devices that can detect their orientation correctly assign the data. So, when storing or uploading, things remain normal. However, older devices and iOS don’t do this and images and videos are displayed with awkward rotations.
Ideally, a browser should be able to detect this and automatically correct the rotation. However, (surprise, surprise) only Internet Explorer 10 does this.
Yes, I logged in via facebook. The other way is too cumbersome, in comparison.
Nevertheless, just try how it goes with the default buddypress theme, once. It is way beyond our business hours (about 10 pm), so I’d only be able to check it in the morning, tomorrow, along with the team. We’ll register via the standard form, then.
The group media functionality is very new and introduced in just 2.3. Hence, there is just the bare minimum functionality. Could you add this as a feature request on our github repo here: https://github.com/rtCamp/buddypress-media/issues.
As of now, they would just have to copy paste the url, which sucks frankly. We are not sure how to link the users’ uploads in a group to their profiles or activities. We have multiple ideas but can’t zero in on ‘the’ one.
