Flashing bars at top & bottom of movie playback

This seems to have happened since iTunes 11.1.3. When playing an mp4 or quicktime movie, flashing bars appear at the top & bottom of the screen. This can be stopped by exiting and then re-entering full screen view. I can then switch between any movie file and the problem no longer appears......until next time! Has anyone else experienced this? I can't seem to find any reference to it anywhere.

When you export, use the Crop options on the Source tab to trim a few pixels off the left and right sides. Seem counter-intuitive, but what's happening is that Premiere/AME is scaling to the nearest boundary without distorting. If you crop a few pixels from the sides, you'll let the image stretch without distortion until it fits the output frame.

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I wonder why there are only NTSC-setting suggested in FLV-share. I have to change the size by myself.
And I wonder why Wikipedia says PAR for DV-PAL is "1,0940" and Premiere says "1,067".
I'm new to Premiere Elements 7 (although I got some experience with Premiere 5/6.5, FinalCut, Cinelerra ...) using Windows XP.

I posted two videos on muvipix.com:
WMV cable modem settings PrEl (without audio, fps like original)
Strange: in VLC media player there are bars on the left and right (and slight faded bars on top/bottom - hope you can see) and in muvipix.com and Media Player Classic there are bars at top/bottom
http://muvipix.com/cpg/displayimage.php?album=lastup&cat=17219&pos=0
http://muvipix.com/cpg/albums/userpics/17219/Unbenannt.wmv
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http://muvipix.com/cpg/displayimage.php?album=lastup&cat=17219&pos=1
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