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Voodoo3 - Native Aspect Ratio Correction?

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First post, by TheMysteriousGray

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Hi,

I was wondering if the Voodoo3 had the ability to natively stretch screen resolutions in some way? I have mine hooked up to another PC to capture video from the S-Video port and it generally works quite well, except that 320x200 games like Doom are not aspect-correct in the capture window. This isn't a big deal when just using the old PC by itself, because I have a monitor that can adjust the picture to the correct dimensions, but streaming that video to another PC results in a somewhat squashed display in lower-resolution modes. Regular aspect ratios like 640x480 or 800x600 are fine.

Is there anything I can do to correct for this with just an S-Video capture device and the two PCs on hand, or will I need to buy/finagle a new solution that properly captures the source footage?

Reply 1 of 2, by leileilol

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No. It just does the usual doublescan for the <256 line modes. V3's S-video also not great for 320x200 anyway as some games will just have a corrupt display (70hz vs 60hz also doesn't help and old TVs won't know what to do with that rate, that's more in the pc monitor domain)

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Reply 2 of 2, by NeoG_

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If you aren't using it for live streaming you can change the aspect in post, if you are live streaming you can bind a hotkey to switch to a version of the scene which has the aspect corrected for 200p/400p games

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