🐛 Selfie camera recording on Android is inverted / upside down

What's happening?

Recording video using selfie mode on Android device is upside down / inverted. While recording the video is correct orientation but when playing back the recorded video it is inverted.

Reproduceable Code

 const onStartRecording = () => {
    setDescriptionIsOpen(false);
    setRecodingState('recording');
    onRecordingStarted();
    cameraRef.current?.startRecording({
      videoCodec: 'h265',
      onRecordingFinished: (video) => {
        stopCountdown();
        stopStopWatch();
        onRecordingFinished(video);
        setTimeout(() => {
          setCountdown(0);
          setRecodingState('idle');
          setIsFrontCamera(false);
        }, 150);
      },
      onRecordingError: (error) => {
        stopCountdown();
        stopStopWatch();
        onRecordingError?.(error);
      },
    });
    startCountdown();
    startStopWatch();
  };

        <VisionCamera
          ref={mergeRefs}
          audio
          enableZoomGesture
          focusable
          video
          device={device}
          format={bestVideoFormat}
          isActive={isAppForeground && isFocused}
          orientation="portrait"
          photo={false}
          pixelFormat="yuv"
          style={StyleSheet.absoluteFill}
          torch={device.hasTorch ? (torchEnabled ? 'on' : 'off') : 'off'}
          videoHdr={false}
          videoStabilizationMode="off"
          zoom={device.neutralZoom}
        />

<Camera
        ref={videoRecorder}
        enableZoomGesture
        video
        device={device}
        format={bestVideoFormat}
        isActive={isAppForeground && isFocused}
        style={STYLES.camera}
      />

Relevant log output

No error logs for this, everything records fine it just show the recording as inverted.

Camera Device

no device info, but can reproduce on Android emulator, and production Pixel devices.

Device

Pixel 5 (Android 14), Pixel 7 (Android 14)

VisionCamera Version

4.0.1

Can you reproduce this issue in the VisionCamera Example app?

I didn't try (⚠️ your issue might get ignored & closed if you don't try this)

Additional information

[ ] I am using Expo
[ ] I have enabled Frame Processors (react-native-worklets-core)
[X] I have read the Troubleshooting Guide
[X] I agree to follow this project's Code of Conduct
[X] I searched for similar issues in this repository and found none.

mrousavy / react-native-vision-camera

🐛 Selfie camera recording on Android is inverted / upside down #2828