EXIF rotation info not applied to main picture in 'stripshow' view

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Take a picture in portrait orientation with a camera that supports EXIF 
orientation information, and store it on a location accessible to XBMC
2. Run XMBC and navigate to the picture using the 'stripshow' view
3. Observe that the rotation is applied to the thumbnail on the bottom of the 
screen, but the main picture in the screen always has landscape orientation 
regardless of the EXIF information.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
I expected a portrait orientation, but got a landscape orientation in the main 
view instead.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
Using XBMC 11.x alpha on Windows 7 Home Premium.

Please provide any additional information below.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by BorreSan...@gmail.com on 25 Jul 2011 at 5:27

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It's either hig-res pictures on background without exif info, or low res 
thumbnails with exif info on background. Reason is that XBMC caches thumbnails 
at fairly low resolution by default (512). And exif info is only used when the 
thumbnail is used, not when the image is a path. I think it's better to have 
the high res background, especially on full hd tv's.

Original comment by big.noid...@gmail.com on 25 Jul 2011 at 11:03

• Changed state: WontFix

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I think I understand the dilemma and the choice you made in that. I agree that 
if you have to choose between orientation and high resolution, it's better to 
opt for resolution. Thanks for your consideration.

Original comment by BorreSan...@gmail.com on 25 Jul 2011 at 4:13