And I'm finding all of this info to be very informative. I will be exporting to QT in the near future for web viewing as well as WMV and DiVX =) . Just to recap what was said above, DiVX is among the more difficult to get right but when you do I just don't think anything can compete with the quality vs. filesize. If I wanted to use DiVX for near lossless I would use 3000-5000 bitrate (depending on the source.. if you go too high for the source, you get green blocks). But I tried a DVD > 3001BR Hi-motion DiVX 3.11a capture the other night and I swear it came out so beatiful I just wanted to eat it with a fork and knife. It was a high motion, complex pixeled scene, 1:30 in length, the end result with 128k MP3 sound was 10M. It looked almost like uncompressed AVI. Of course I was starting with a s35 film (which is why I say source is so important for a good conversion), but damn did it look good. So I just have to go back and say the all around king for me has been for several years, and continues to be DiVX =) but for pure versatility vs. quality vs. filesize I think QT is gonna be the winner, with HuffYUV DEFINITELY being my favorite capturing codec (reduces filesize of AVI vs. uncompressed by 50%-200%). Of course then I have to process in VD with deinterlace and/or 2:1best reduction, but the end result is worth it.