Rotating a video (ubuntu 12.04)

I have a video, shot on my android phone, which I want to rotate 90 degrees clockwise for computer viewing. Here's what I expect should work: ffmpeg -i infile.mp4 -vf "transpose=1" -an -vcodec mpeg4 outfile.mp4 except that it gives me: Error while opening encoder for output stream #0.0 - maybe incorrect parameters such as bit_rate, rate, width or height The command ffmpeg -codec does produce a long list which includes DEVSDT mpeg4 MPEG-4 part 2 Then I experimented with ffmpeg -vf "transpose=1″ -qscale=2 -i infile.mp4 outfile.mp4 but this seems to be an unfinished command, as all I get is a ">" symbol in my terminal. I've also tried: mencoder -fps 30000/1001 -ofps 30000/1001 -ovc lavc -vf rotate=1 -oac pcm infile.mp4 -o outfile.mp4 which does work, but gives a very poor output - far worse than the input. I can certainly view the video in the correct orientation: mplayer -vo xv -vf rotate=1 infile.mp4 but I have as yet not found a way to write the rotated video to a file. I have no experience at all with video coding, so any advice would be most welcome!