Issues with portrait videos recorded with iPhone

Hi,

For a few months now all the portrait videos that I have recorded using my iPhone are wrongly displayed. The image is stretched to, they are displayed in 16/9. No mater if im using plex web, chromecast,the Samsung Smart TV app (2015 and older models) or the iOS application. I have tried to direct play, direct stream and transcode but the result is the same.

There are no issues with the media files, on my mac and iphone are displayed correctly, even on a windows machine using a player that supports the rotation metadata information. Strangely this worked a few months ago so I believe something is broken on the server side since all the clients have the same issue.

I\m using the latest plex pass server version and all the clients are up to date.

Mediainfo:
Video
ID : 1
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile : Baseline@L3.1
Format settings, CABAC : No
Format settings, ReFrames : 1 frame
Format settings, GOP : M=1, N=30
Codec ID : avc1
Codec ID/Info : Advanced Video Coding
Duration : 25s 560ms
Bit rate : 10.6 Mbps
Width : 1 280 pixels
Height : 720 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Rotation : 90°
Frame rate mode : Variable
Frame rate : 29.890 fps
Minimum frame rate : 10.000 fps
Maximum frame rate : 30.000 fps
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.384
Stream size : 32.2 MiB (99%)
Title : Core Media Video
Encoded date : UTC 2012-06-08 11:46:17
Tagged date : UTC 2012-06-08 11:46:30
Color primaries : BT.709
Transfer characteristics : BT.709
Matrix coefficients : BT.709

Small update:
When playing the video files from a Photo Library they are correctly displayed. Only when played from a Home Video Library are wrongly displayed.

Same issue here. They used to display fine in earlier Plex versions.

Please fix, Plex.

The issue has been fix in the 1.9.3 version. Thread can be closed.

(Transcoder) Portrait videos would be stretched out when being transcoded (#7287)

Works on desktop, on chromecast, on iphone buit doesn’t work on Samsung TV ( the 2015 model that uses the unoficial model).

I have the same issue with portrait shot phone video being stretched beyond watchable use.

Apple iPhone X video shot vertically is stretched.

Samsung TV = QE55Q6FN

Plex for Samsung 3.3.4 = Samsung

Tizen 4.0 = Samsung

Similar issue with the fire tv stick 4k. Video does not play at all. Says connection to server was lost. Connection is fine. Landscape videos play.
Any help?