diff --git a/sdk/src/main/java/ai/decart/sdk/realtime/livekit/LocalStreamFactory.kt b/sdk/src/main/java/ai/decart/sdk/realtime/livekit/LocalStreamFactory.kt
index 8b1f6ff..78c31b1 100644
--- a/sdk/src/main/java/ai/decart/sdk/realtime/livekit/LocalStreamFactory.kt
+++ b/sdk/src/main/java/ai/decart/sdk/realtime/livekit/LocalStreamFactory.kt
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ import ai.decart.sdk.realtime.RealtimeConfiguration
 import ai.decart.sdk.realtime.RealtimeMediaStream
 import ai.decart.sdk.realtime.shouldMirror
 import android.content.Context
+import android.content.res.Configuration
 import io.livekit.android.LiveKit
 
 /**
@@ -37,11 +38,46 @@ internal object LocalStreamFactory {
             null
         }
 
+        // Match capture dimensions to the device's current orientation. The
+        // server's realtime inference pipeline eagerly publishes its output
+        // video track at the dimensions the input track advertised in its
+        // publication metadata (LiveKit TrackInfo populated from the
+        // publisher's AddTrackRequest) before any media is decoded; if
+        // those advertised dims don't match the actual orientation of the
+        // delivered frames, the bridge republishes the output track when
+        // the first input frame arrives. The republish (unpublish-old +
+        // publish-new on the same participant) triggers a transceiver-reuse
+        // race in the LiveKit Android subscriber path where TrackSubscribed
+        // for the new track is never delivered to the client — the renderer
+        // is never attached and the app shows a black screen until session
+        // timeout (~37 % rate on portrait-locked Android sessions in
+        // production sampling).
+        //
+        // RealtimeModel definitions specify the model's natural landscape
+        // (W,H); on a portrait device this would force the publication
+        // metadata to landscape while CVO rotation carries the frames to
+        // portrait. By transposing here we make the publication metadata
+        // carry the rotated (i.e. displayed) dims, so the server's
+        // eager-publish prediction lands at the correct orientation on the
+        // first try and no republish happens.
+        val (captureW, captureH) = orientCaptureDims(context, width, height)
+        if (captureW != width || captureH != height) {
+            logger.info(
+                "livekit: oriented capture dims for device",
+                mapOf(
+                    "requested_width" to width,
+                    "requested_height" to height,
+                    "capture_width" to captureW,
+                    "capture_height" to captureH,
+                ),
+            )
+        }
+
         val videoTrack = participant.createVideoTrack(
             name = "local_video",
             options = configuration.media.video.captureOptions(
-                width = width,
-                height = height,
+                width = captureW,
+                height = captureH,
                 facing = facing,
             ),
             videoProcessor = processor,
@@ -54,4 +90,24 @@ internal object LocalStreamFactory {
             room = room,
         )
     }
+
+    /**
+     * Returns (width, height) oriented to match the device's current
+     * orientation: longer side along the device's longer axis. Accepts dims
+     * in either orientation and normalizes; callers (and the
+     * RealtimeModel defs) can keep passing the model's natural landscape
+     * (W,H) and we'll transpose when the device is portrait.
+     *   - ORIENTATION_PORTRAIT  → (short, long)  e.g. (624, 1088)
+     *   - ORIENTATION_LANDSCAPE → (long, short)  e.g. (1088, 624)
+     *   - undefined/square      → pass through unchanged
+     */
+    private fun orientCaptureDims(context: Context, width: Int, height: Int): Pair<Int, Int> {
+        val short = minOf(width, height)
+        val long = maxOf(width, height)
+        return when (context.resources.configuration.orientation) {
+            Configuration.ORIENTATION_PORTRAIT -> Pair(short, long)
+            Configuration.ORIENTATION_LANDSCAPE -> Pair(long, short)
+            else -> Pair(width, height)
+        }
+    }
 }