AppleTV export is broke.

I record television shows using El Gato's EyeTV. It has an export to AppleTV feature. It exports the recorded using the following specs: H.264, 720x480, AAC Stereo 48.000 kHz, Data rate around 2500 kbits/s. Normal and Current Size show 640 x 480. Its worked great. Until Leopard (or QT 7.3). My most recent recording used the same specs as before but when I went to play it, the Normal Size and Current Size are completely different now. They are showing something like 569 x 480.
So I thought this was a problem with EyeTV. Until I tested a dvd with Handbrake. I exported it with the AppleTV preset and what do you know? The same thing is happening here. The Normal Size and Current Size are around 567 x 480. What is going on here?
Everything I've exported up till now with the AppleTV settings always displays the Current and Normal Size as 640 x 480. But not anymore. I also exported my recorded show using the iPod (Best) format and it correctly shows the Normal and Current Size as 640 x 480.

I record television shows using El Gato's EyeTV. It has an export to AppleTV feature. It exports the recorded using the following specs: H.264, 720x480, AAC Stereo 48.000 kHz, Data rate around 2500 kbits/s. Normal and Current Size show 640 x 480.
Would you happen to be viewing your content in Front Row? If so, that is probably your problem. It seems it ignores the "Current Size" setting and plays back at the "encode" matrix dimensions -- not the "square pixel equivalent which probably matches your "original" and "current" settings.

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