Video playing sideways after burning to DVD

So I recorded some videos on my Motorola Droid Turbo. I downloaded them to my computer. They play perfect when I play them on my computer. When I burn them to DVD and try to play them in a DVD player, they play, BUT SIDEWAYS. I really need to get these videos burned to a DVD so I can send the DVD to the people who I recorded them for. They are very large files and can not be emailed.

I used NERO Burning ROM. The videos are MP4

Solution 1:

The problem you are having is that your phone sets a "flag" in the video properties that tells the player software that it was taken in a particular orientation and that is the orientation in which is should play. However, DVD players do not support that, since the DVD video specification predates video from cell phones.

You probably need to use a video editing application to actually rotate the video and save it. Note that it is likely that this will reduce the quality of the video.

The application I used to recommend for this, Windows Live Movie Maker, is no longer available. HowToGeek has instructions for doing it with VLC Media Player, but I have not tried them so I don't know whether to recommend them or not. Any video editing program (there are lots of free and paid options) should be able to help you.