Video rotated after applying AVVideoComposition

Question

After applying an AVVideoComposition to my AVPlayerItem, the filter I apply does work, but the video gets rotated in the AVPlayerLayer.

Answer 1

If You are trying to play AVMutableCompostion You should set AVAssetTrack's preferredTransform to AVMutableCompositionTrack's preferredTransform.

let asset = AVAsset(url: url!)

let composition = AVMutableComposition()
let compositionTrack = composition.addMutableTrack(withMediaType: AVMediaTypeVideo, preferredTrackID: kCMPersistentTrackID_Invalid)

let videoTrack = asset.tracks(withMediaType: AVMediaTypeVideo).first

try? compositionTrack.insertTimeRange(CMTimeRangeMake(kCMTimeZero, asset.duration), of: videoTrack!, at: kCMTimeZero)

compositionTrack.preferredTransform = (videoTrack?.preferredTransform)!

let playerItem = AVPlayerItem(asset: composition)
let filter = CIFilter(name: "CIColorInvert")
playerItem.videoComposition = AVVideoComposition(asset: composition, applyingCIFiltersWithHandler: { (request: AVAsynchronousCIImageFilteringRequest) in
            filter?.setValue(request.sourceImage, forKey: kCIInputImageKey)
            request.finish(with: (filter?.outputImage)!, context: nil)
        })
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