Aspect Ratio and Itunes/Apple TV

So I recently bought an apple tv and have set it up in my room. I have been trying to play my tv shows that I already owned on my computer. My movie files are programed as 4:3 but in any other video player I can set it to play in 16:9 and they look exactly how they should. So now if I try to play my movies through itunes so I can see them on my Apple Tv they are all smashed. Is anyone else having this problem? There is no way to change the aspect ratio in Itunes. So I either have to wait until they make that an option, Watch the movies on my laptop, or watch them all smashed on my Tv through Itunes. I hope they fix this soon

Welcome to the Apple Communities.
If you don't wish to re-encode everything, the AR is controlled by flags rather than being encoded into the movie video data, you can change these flags as indeed you do when you watch them on your mac. I'm not sure which application you use to change the flags on your mac but it may well allow you to save the changes. if it doesn't there are a number of applications such as Quicktime 7, which will let you save them.

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