ITunes stretching videos, changing aspect ratios

I use Elgato's EyeTV to record TV programmes, and their Turbo264 plug-in to encode for the Apple TV. All the programmes added to my iTunes library are suddenly appearing with the aspect ratio of 1456*576.
I am certain that this is an iTunes problem rather than an Elgato problem because:
1) If you look at the file properties in Finder the files are the correct aspect ratio of 1024*576
2) I recorded an entire series in December and watched the first two, which displayed correctly, but appear to have become retrospectively stretched.
Bizarrely this only appears to apply to recorded programmes or movies recorded from the TV, content acquired elsewhere is OK. It also only appears to apply only to content with a width of 1024.
Any thoughts?

Hi there...
it would seem that people are increasingly reporting this issue. See my thread here;
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1377284&tstart=0
and others such as these;
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1240053&tstart=30
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1224419&tstart=90
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1379952&tstart=90
Hopefully Apple will look at what is going on here.
You'll see in my thread the funny thing is you can fix the issue when you open/view the files in QuickTime but a lack of view setting options in iTunes means that the same can't be done there.

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