I use HandBrake to rip from iDVD images of my edited DV footage into mpeg4. It's French and it is the best compressor I know of. check out the results at my site. 1mb a minute and it looks great. <http://handbrake.m0k.org/> -- Taylor Barcroft http://www.blogger.com/profile/11159903 New Media Publisher, Editor, Video Journalist, Podcaster, Futurecaster Santa Cruz CA, Beach of the Silicon Valley URL http://FutureMedia.org RSS http://feeds.feedburner.com/FutureMedia iTunes http://tinyurl.com/8ql87 On Oct 17, 2005, at 4:21 PM, Neil wrote: > OK, so the problem is that his computer is too slow for such a cpu > intensive > codec? What does it mean to "encode it better?" Does that mean I > should > choose a different codec? Do you have any suggestions? Maybe I > should use > Divx? Windows users seem to love that one.