Maybe look for old uploads, or the term "pan and scan"?
A lot of media was actually filmed in a wide aspect ratio for theater, then "pan and scanned" down to 4:3 for home television.
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Exactly, it would be more authentic to the time to watch it on 4:3 with black bands.
It might be easier to reach out to EmuVR and see if they can update it to crop the videos instead of letterboxing them during playback. I would think someone working on such a project would be receptive of this idea. This also wouldn't be terribly difficult from a programming perspective.
I think that may not be on them. I think it would be a matter of tweaking the FFmpeg core in RetroArch but I don't know if it has live video cropping as a feature especially when within the confines of RetroArch. Scaling? Maybe but that's not really what I'm after.
Searching online I am getting either command line options or unrelated results about CRT gaming.
But it would ruin the framing. Not all shots are framed with the subject dead center.
Search for DVD, or if you are really desperate 480p, and then it's all about looking at the title and seeing if it gives you more info about if it's 4:3
This is what I was going to suggest too. It should be pretty effective.
Check your local library. Many of them have DVDs you can borrow. The older ones may be fullscreen. Then you can rip them with Handbrake.
You might try SDTV or Fullscreen (plus DVD or VHS since those were the last formats that typically offered that aspect ratio regularly) as tags/search terms. I am otherwise unaware of any specific automated search options for 4:3 content. :/
Obviously it would take some work, but you could set up an automated set of scripts that would crop the videos and spit them out as 4:3.
Is there no option within the vr application itself to auto zoom and crop videos to fit the TV?
The problem with the "crop it down" suggestions is that many native 4:3 releases were cropped to be re-released as 16:9... Cropping again to 4:3 would sacrifice even more of the original picture.
archive.org
Are there collections of that or would I be doing what I am now and checking individual files?
Searching aspect ratio and 4:3 doesn't seem to pull up much