Andrew Coppin <orp### [at] btinternetcom> wrote:
> OK, so a number of people have advised me to use DivX instead of any of the
> other various AVI codecs I have... I would just like to say that I have now
> tried this, and it appears that for the most part, DivX gives lower quality
> with larger filesizes when compared to MPEG-1. (I'm sure someone's going to
> come and tell me I've got it all wrong, but that's what I found.)

  Then all those people sharing videos in the net should promptly switch
to MPEG-1 instead of DivX... ;)

  Do you really think they are not using MPEG-1 for a good reason?-)

> Also, a lot of folks have said something about "MPEG-4 codecs"... Where the
> heck do you find one of those? (Bearing in mind that I have no idea how the
> codecs I *do* have got onto my system...)

  DivX is one. You can also try Xvid (http://www.xvid.org/)

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