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

What worked for me at the end:

private func filterVideo(with filter: Filter?) {
    guard let player = playerLayer?.player, let playerItem = player.currentItem else { return }

    let videoComposition = AVVideoComposition(asset: playerItem.asset, applyingCIFiltersWithHandler: { (request) in
        if let filter = filter {
            if let filteredImage = filter.filterImage(request.sourceImage) {
                let output = filteredImage.cropping(to: request.sourceImage.extent)
                request.finish(with: output, context: nil)
            } else {
                printError("Image not filtered")
                request.finish(with: RenderError.couldNotFilter)
            }
        } else {
            let output = request.sourceImage.cropping(to: request.sourceImage.extent)
            request.finish(with: output, context: nil)
        }
    })

    playerItem.videoComposition = videoComposition
}

This is the filterImage function of Filter, which is just a nice little wrapper for CIFilter:

func filterImage(_ ciImage: CIImage) -> CIImage? {
    guard let filter = ciFilter else { return nil }
    filter.setDefaults()
    filter.setValue(ciImage, forKey: kCIInputImageKey)
    guard let filteredImageData = filter.value(forKey: kCIOutputImageKey) as? CIImage else { return nil }
    return filteredImageData
}