Video Upside down in Virtualdub but not in player

[bbmaster123]

I've got a video file I'm trying to help someone with. They wanted to cut about 2 seconds from the middle, and not lose any quality so I figured vdub and direct stream copy.

The video is a mov file, HEVC recorded from an iphone X, and while the video does open, its upside down in virtualdub2. I can export using file > export > stream copy which works, but the exported video is then upside down in the player.

I checked the metadata in the video file and it has a flag set rotate = 180

what do I do so that I don't need to apply a rotate filter? Is there a setting to change, or do I need to edit the metadata somehow?

The last thing I tried is I installed ffmpeg vdub plugin and tried opening the video using that instead of the caching driver, but same thing.

Thanks to everyone here in advance, you're all awesome!!

[davexnet]

Here's one approach you can try (if MKV is acceptable)
https://www.reddit.com/r/Matroska/comments/i5yorw/autorotate_matroskamkv_with_tags_during_playback/

[bbmaster123]

Here's one approach you can try (if MKV is acceptable)
https://www.reddit.com/r/Matroska/comments/i5yorw/autorotate_matroskamkv_with_tags_during_playback/

thanks that might just work!
adding that does make the video play correctly, I guess the video is taken upside down on apple phones and told to rotate in the player I do not like this approach but oh well

thanks again, I'll post back if I need further assistance