How do i rotate videos / photos in Plex?

I have done some overarching for this, apologies if its been answered a millions times but i can’t find the answer!

The preview of the home videos are in the correct orientation however when i play them it flips them around to landscape.

I’m using a Synology DS213j and Plex on my PS4 - thanks in advance!

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I don’t think Plex has any facility to do this. Do other players play these videos in correct orientation?

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.

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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?

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Can you add this feature please? I have home movies I would like to rotate to view on TV

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I have the same problem with videos that I have recorded. They play fine in the built in player and Google photos (likey the same player).

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