Is it better to get AVi or MPG???

[SimplyMattB]

I am curious Why is it so easy to find AVI DIVX rather than VCD MPG???? Is Divx more popular???? cause I want VCD's and it takes forever to make a Divx into a VCD. Any tips is it common to find more Avi's than Mpg's????????
And do most of you guys just look for AVIs and make your own MPG;s??? whats better
Thanks
Matt

[SimplyMattB]

????? anybody?

[thxkid]

Well for a long time I recorded my video sources as uncompressed AVI's, problem, took up huge amount of disc space, I mean I would hit the 4 gig win98 limit in about 12-15min. of a AVI.
So I needed something else, check around I ended up buying a MPEG 1 & 2 Hardware decoder, now I can do 60min. of MPEG2 in 1.2gigs, cut commericals out and have a 45min. show on one 99min. CD-R.
I got a happauge PVR PCI MPEG encoder, its not cheap $250, but well worth the time it saves me.

[Betamax]

Don't use AVI : It's huge and you cannot play it at every computer, while AVI is bounded to a specific CODEC which needs to be installed or the AVI cannot be red.
DivX is AVI too ! DivX is actually some kind of Codec (but then more warez)
Best way is still MPeG. MPeG-1 can be played at any Windows platform (even Windows 3.1x) and at any OS/2 2.11+ platform, whithout the need of any extra installed software but the OS itself. MPeG-2 is for better quality, but you only can play this when a DVD-player has been installed (while this DVD-player installs all necessary into the system so other applications, like MediaPlayer, can work with it).
And MPeG saves a lot in diskspace.
When encoding to MPeG-1 (VCD) you can put about 75minutes of raw playing onto 1 CDrom.