It is trivial (relatively speaking) to write a video transformer or photo transformer that rotates but is otherwise loss-less. Android’s built-in viewers had it for quite some time, being well aware that sometimes the device orientation flag fails to get applied correctly. Picasa had it as a 1-button switcher.
I have a Samsung Galaxy 6, Android 7. My portrait-oriented uploaded videos through Plex Sync are not rotated properly. They play back in landscape mode and it is very frustrating that I can’t just share them as-is with my family, but have to load them into some other tool. The transcoders that optimize for target platform should be able to dynamically rotate on the fly with ease.
Is there some technical reason why Plex does not support playing videos on Android phones in portrait mode? I came here searching for a solution, and I see that people have been asking for this for at least four years, but it’s still an issue. Is it affecting too small a number of users to be worth the development effort? Is it just too hard? I’m really disappointed that this doesn’t work properly.
Being new to Plex, I haven’t completely explored the limitations; I don’t know if this is a problem in iOS or on Android tablets; I don’t know if there’s a Windows app and, if so, if the problem exists there as well. Is this an Android- (or Android phone)-only problem?