| The more you compress, the higher the quality of compression you need to use (i.e. takes longer). Also look at using a 2 pass compression, instead of 1. If you have audio, maybe re-encode that (say 128kb/s mp3) use CDex to do that encoding as a riff-wav which means a program like virtualdub can read it.
Divx 6 is also good, you can get the basic codec for free, but you will have to pay for full use.
I haven't had any problems with xvid - and its free!!!
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