1. A method for correcting and presenting a barrel distorted image with a user-defined aspect ratio, comprising: acquiring a continuous flow of barrel distorted images in a video camera, for a barrel distorted image in the continuous flow: processing the image in an image processor within the video camera and adding the processed image as an output image to an image stream, wherein the processing includes applying a barrel-distortion correction so as enable formation of a corrected image having a minimum width and a minimum height, h′, and generating the output image by cropping the corrected image to a height exceeding the minimum height and having the user-defined aspect ratio.