What are some top codecs to use?

[KaBuKi]

What are some top codecs and the compression rate or whatever it is for avi's? Please don't include divx cause its a piece of shit and pisses me off and never works

[m1lkman]

hmm i never seemed to have a problem with divx - so i would say divx... but i guess xvid would be pretty good

[[OpM]DEATH-[KuQ]]

i just recently started on my project for the summer and my first major TFC avi project im doing everything in raw uncompressed format the final product will be in DVD compatible format i expect it to be about 2.5 GB in size

[Defrag]

Read up on xvid 2 pass encoding. Also, a codec I found that is great for fast motion first-person AVIs is the Divx hi-motion codec. However, this codec is a hack of something and meant to be illegal, but you can acquire it from various places. I'm not sure why it's illegal, but it gives great results.

[ken0bi]

if you don't like divx then use xvid, it's better anyway imo.

[public_slots_free.mL]

what defrag said. i get really good results with that one