VLC aspect manipulation help

[supershaven]

Hi team,

My first post in the forums! I am an AV Integrator and am doing a Job for a school who had a very limited budget and is hoping to record their performances with a PTZ camera. The drawback is they could only afford the Sony EVI D80 option which is native 4:3 aspect. having this and a ceiling mic system running through a Vaddio AV bridge which outputs a USB connection for capture to a PC. All testing is fine using VLC as the capture software with the only issue being I cannot have the 4:3 feed manipulated to widescreen before capture (that I can see anyway) I am hoping there is a way to do this without having to rely on post production editing.

Can anyone advise on how/if this is possible. If they have to suffer pillarboxing then so be it, but I have a feeling VLC can combat this.

Any help is hugely appreciated!!!

G.

[pattomyfriends]

Hey G.

Fellow AV integrator here. Have you tried going into the advanced settings? Once you open Media and select the "Capture Device" tab, their should be a "Advanced Options..." button. The first option is Picture aspect-ratio n:m. It is set to 4:3 by default, but I have found you can change it to 16:9 for wide screen recording.

Pat