iOS: playback video in landscape when portrait orientation lock is on

Some of us have the portrait orientation lock on all the time on our iPhones, and when it is on, VLC scales the video so that the video's width fits the screen's width (in portrait), wasting most of the screen estate. It is safe to say that the great majority of videos are landscape (16:9, 4:3, etc.), and most of us prefer to watch landscape videos in landscape. Therefore, is it possible to set the player in landscape even if the portrait orientation lock is on? (The stock Videos app does precisely this; it rotates to landscape when one initiates the video player.)

By the way, currently the only workaround (that I know of) to bypass the orientation lock in VLC is to use the rotate screen accessibility feature, and that feature is more like a bug in iOS that might get fixed in the future: the screen rotates back to portrait every time one exits the app, which is very annoying.