diff --git a/next-cloudinary/src/components/CldVideoPlayer/CldVideoPlayer.tsx b/next-cloudinary/src/components/CldVideoPlayer/CldVideoPlayer.tsx
index d0701dfd..e4c3fd6c 100644
--- a/next-cloudinary/src/components/CldVideoPlayer/CldVideoPlayer.tsx
+++ b/next-cloudinary/src/components/CldVideoPlayer/CldVideoPlayer.tsx
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ import { CloudinaryVideoPlayer } from '@cloudinary-util/types';
 import { getVideoPlayerOptions } from '@cloudinary-util/url-loader';
 
 import { CldVideoPlayerProps } from './CldVideoPlayer.types';
+import { getPlayerTransformation } from './getPlayerTransformation';
 
 import { getCloudinaryConfig } from "../../lib/cloudinary";
 
@@ -36,6 +37,8 @@ const CldVideoPlayer = (props: CldVideoPlayerProps) => {
 
   const cloudinaryConfig = getCloudinaryConfig(config);
   const playerOptions = getVideoPlayerOptions(props, cloudinaryConfig);
+  playerOptions.transformation = getPlayerTransformation(props, playerOptions.transformation);
+
   const { publicId } = playerOptions;
   if ( typeof publicId === 'undefined' ) {
     throw new Error('Video Player requires a Public ID or Cloudinary URL - please specify a src prop');
diff --git a/next-cloudinary/src/components/CldVideoPlayer/getPlayerTransformation.ts b/next-cloudinary/src/components/CldVideoPlayer/getPlayerTransformation.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..61e74ad2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/next-cloudinary/src/components/CldVideoPlayer/getPlayerTransformation.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+import type { CloudinaryVideoPlayerOptions } from '@cloudinary-util/types';
+
+import type { CldVideoPlayerProps } from './CldVideoPlayer.types';
+
+/**
+ * getPlayerTransformation
+ * @description getVideoPlayerOptions passes the transformation as an array ([{ quality }, ...transformation]).
+ * The player turns each array item into its own URL step, which leaves an `aspectRatio` alone in
+ * a step and breaks poster URLs (cloudinary/cloudinary-video-player#1087). When an aspectRatio is
+ * set and the caller didn't pass an array themselves, combine everything into a single
+ * transformation object. Players without an aspectRatio keep their existing URLs.
+ */
+
+export function getPlayerTransformation(
+  props: Pick<CldVideoPlayerProps, 'aspectRatio' | 'transformation'>,
+  transformation: CloudinaryVideoPlayerOptions['transformation']
+): CloudinaryVideoPlayerOptions['transformation'] {
+  if ( props.aspectRatio && !Array.isArray(props.transformation) && Array.isArray(transformation) ) {
+    return Object.assign({}, ...transformation.filter(Boolean));
+  }
+
+  return transformation;
+}
diff --git a/next-cloudinary/tests/components/getPlayerTransformation.spec.js b/next-cloudinary/tests/components/getPlayerTransformation.spec.js
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..fbc71e00
--- /dev/null
+++ b/next-cloudinary/tests/components/getPlayerTransformation.spec.js
@@ -0,0 +1,61 @@
+import { describe, it, expect } from 'vitest';
+import { getVideoPlayerOptions } from '@cloudinary-util/url-loader';
+
+import { getPlayerTransformation } from '../../src/components/CldVideoPlayer/getPlayerTransformation';
+
+const config = { cloud: { cloudName: 'test' } };
+
+function getTransformation(props) {
+  const playerOptions = getVideoPlayerOptions(props, config);
+  return getPlayerTransformation(props, playerOptions.transformation);
+}
+
+describe('CldVideoPlayer', () => {
+  describe('getPlayerTransformation', () => {
+    it('should keep the transformation array when there is no aspectRatio', () => {
+      const props = {
+        src: 'turtle',
+        transformation: { effect: 'sepia' }
+      };
+
+      const { transformation } = getVideoPlayerOptions(props, config);
+
+      expect(getTransformation(props)).toEqual(transformation);
+    });
+
+    it('should combine the transformation into one object when there is an aspectRatio', () => {
+      expect(getTransformation({
+        src: 'turtle',
+        aspectRatio: '16:9',
+        transformation: { effect: 'sepia' }
+      })).toEqual({ quality: 'auto', effect: 'sepia' });
+    });
+
+    it('should combine into one object when there is an aspectRatio and no transformation', () => {
+      expect(getTransformation({
+        src: 'turtle',
+        aspectRatio: '16:9'
+      })).toEqual({ quality: 'auto' });
+    });
+
+    // The crop mode is passed to the player separately, not as part of the transformation
+    it('should combine into one object with an aspectRatio, crop mode and quality', () => {
+      expect(getTransformation({
+        src: 'turtle',
+        aspectRatio: '16:9',
+        cropMode: 'fill',
+        quality: 50
+      })).toEqual({ quality: 50 });
+    });
+
+    it('should keep the transformation array when the caller passes an array', () => {
+      const props = {
+        src: 'turtle',
+        aspectRatio: '16:9',
+        transformation: [{ effect: 'sepia' }, { width: 300 }]
+      };
+
+      expect(getTransformation(props)).toEqual([{ quality: 'auto' }, { effect: 'sepia' }, { width: 300 }]);
+    });
+  });
+});