Mediastore.action_video_capture Crashes Camera App If Device Is Portrait

I'm using a standard MediaStore.ACTION_VIDEO_CAPTURE Intent call (e.g. the one on the Developer site or lots of StackOverflow threads) to record some video. I'm testing it on a (r

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Is there a way to avoid this happening (while still using the camera via Intent)?

No.

More specifically, there are thousands of possible camera apps -- preloaded or installed by users -- that could claim to support ACTION_VIDEO_CAPTURE, and any of them can have bugs as this one does. There is no EXTRA_PLEASE_AVOID_BUGS that you can pass on the Intent to change that (though that'd be really cool...).