> > 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?-)

I suspect that sentence has the wrong negatives in it... ;-)

On the other hand, I'm pretty sure I'm not the only person to use MPEG-1 on
these NGs...

> > 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.

OK.

> You can also try Xvid (http://www.xvid.org/)

I'll look...

Thanks.
Andrew.

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