Rotate the movies is possible?

[Luke 42077]

@PMahboubiin the case of direct playing with Amazon Fire TV, this is resolved in Emby for Android 3.4.42+. Thanks.

[PMahboubi 4]

On 26/02/2025 at 11:33, Luke said:

@PMahboubiin the case of direct playing with Amazon Fire TV, this is resolved in Emby for Android 3.4.42+. Thanks.

That would be great and look forward to seeing it in action. My firestick autoloads the latest versions and is running v3.4.36. Do you know when 3.4.42+ will be available?

[Luke 42077]

1 hour ago, PMahboubi said:

That would be great and look forward to seeing it in action. My firestick autoloads the latest versions and is running v3.4.36. Do you know when 3.4.42+ will be available?

Hi, hopefully not too long. Once we're ready to submit, then it's usually a few days after that.

[teicang 34]

Hi all, has this rotation issue while transcoding been resolved somehow? I just tried again with the web browser and a week ago with a Samsung Smart TV, but the video still rotates badly.

I have all my personal mobile video that I cannot reproduce with Emby

 

thx

\Gianni

[PMahboubi 4]

I have both the Emby app and the 'Emby for Firestick' App installed on my TV. Initialy they both mis-rotated videos taken with my iphone and places on my PC. Currently, the Firestick version is still rotated incorrectly. The other version works fine now.

[Luke 42077]

8 hours ago, teicang said:

Hi all, has this rotation issue while transcoding been resolved somehow? I just tried again with the web browser and a week ago with a Samsung Smart TV, but the video still rotates badly.

I have all my personal mobile video that I cannot reproduce with Emby

 

thx

\Gianni

When direct playing, the issues should be mostly resolved. When transcoding, there are still issues that we are currently working on. Thanks.

[teicang 34]

@Luke It's been a year since the issue was reported. Do you think you're on the right track to fixing it or is it so complex that there won't be an immediate solution? In that case I'll try to find another player to watch my videos, disconnecting them from Emby.  

thx for your support

[visproduction 315]

In the meantime, using a command line script / batch file for a full ffmpeg install should be able to rotate any number of videos placed in a directory / subdirectories.  Change the transpose value and .mp4 to .mkv, as needed.  
See: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3937387/rotating-videos-with-ffmpeg

Example: ffmpeg_rotate_90_mp4_media.bat

echo ... Processing all .mp4 files in a directory and subdirectories - rotate 90 degrees
echo ... Ctrl X to exit
pause
for /R %%f in (*.mp4) do ffmpeg -i %%f -vf "transpose=1" "rotated90-%%f"
echo completed
pause

I have not tested this batch file.  It should be close.  You could run this once on any folder and subfolders and the script will rotate all the videos.  It should make rotated copies of all the media files.

Edited June 26, 2025 by visproduction

[sa2000 673]

@teicang@PMahboubiIt has been a long while but have some good news now

Emby Server beta 4.9.1.26 now has a fix for portrait videos orientation when transcoding

[teicang 34]

@sa2000Real good news to hear

may I already download the beta version to test it ? I have two NAS ,one Terramaster and the other QNAP ,

Thx a lot

 

[Luke 42077]

7 minutes ago, teicang said:

@sa2000Real good news to hear

may I already download the beta version to test it ? I have two NAS ,one Terramaster and the other QNAP ,

Thx a lot

 

Hi, yes you can: https://emby.media/download

[teicang 34]

Hi @sa2000 and @Luke, I just tested the beta version on my QNAP. The situation has changed, but unfortunately there's still something that doesn't work properly. Now the video no longer rotates, but the system on the Samsung TV gets the aspect ratio wrong; instead of adding two black bars on the sides, it enlarges the video to full screen, flattening all the images. To be sure, I updated the latest version of the Samsung Smart TV app to 2.2.0.

I'll try to upload the Emby logs and some images hoping can help you.

thxx

\Gi

 

 

ffmpeg-transcode-e7dec287-0732-45d9-8c9c-a4f45952c669_1.txt ffmpeg-transcode-216db691-8ce9-4acf-a58a-0b65142647e8_1.txt embyserver.txt ffmpeg-transcode-a303f0a3-a793-43ab-bf63-b17011615d20_1.txt

[teicang 34]

ADD: same video played from PC with google CHrome work fine both in direct playng than transcode.

\Gi

[sa2000 673]

18 minutes ago, teicang said:

I just tested the beta version on my QNAP. The situation has changed, but unfortunately there's still something that doesn't work properly. Now the video no longer rotates, but the system on the Samsung TV gets the aspect ratio wrong; instead of adding two black bars on the sides, it enlarges the video to full screen, flattening all the images. To be sure, I updated the latest version of the Samsung Smart TV app to 2.2.0.

I'll try to upload the Emby logs and some images hoping can help you.

Thanks for the feedback. The issue that we fixed was for transoded playback. So did this issue on the samsung not already exist for Direct Play of the portrait. 

What model is the samsung tv ?

cc @SamES

[teicang 34]

SAMSUNG QE65Q80

Unfortunately all videos shot with my S24 phone are always transcoded, so I didn't have a chance to check if it worked in direct playback

 

thxx

[sa2000 673]

Thanks @teicang - I will follow this up with the development team

[SamES 1056]

4 hours ago, teicang said:

Hi @sa2000 and @Luke, I just tested the beta version on my QNAP. The situation has changed, but unfortunately there's still something that doesn't work properly. Now the video no longer rotates, but the system on the Samsung TV gets the aspect ratio wrong; instead of adding two black bars on the sides, it enlarges the video to full screen, flattening all the images. To be sure, I updated the latest version of the Samsung Smart TV app to 2.2.0.

I'll try to upload the Emby logs and some images hoping can help you.

thxx

\Gi

 

 

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Yes, it looks like the app might need to have the aspect ratio calculation adjusted now that the server side is fixed. I'll take a look at it.

[sa2000 673]

@teicangThe stretched portrait video issue has been resolved in Emby for Samsung beta 2.2.1 

Release Note

 

Edited September 10, 2025 by sa2000

[teicang 34]

@sa2000Good news, probably has been released just after I download last ver 2.2.0 and made the tests, asap I will download the new version and let you know if the problem will be fix

many thx for your support

[sa2000 673]

Thanks

It was only fixed within the last 24 hours - after you reported the problem and I confirmed it

[teicang 34]

@sa2000@SamES @LukeReal happy to inform you that with the AP release 2.2.1 for Samsung and the beta release for server NOW the problem is FIXED 

transcoding mode

My personal thx to all of you for the great result , now I can play all my video with my emby system , thxxxxxxx