Starting over with WinAvi problems

[alex0000]

My situation - I had my dvd burning humming good for several years simple process WinAvi worked like a charm zero problems - long story short my computer took a dump so I am starting over on a new setup. Installed WinAvi 10 and its updated enough to where its pretty new to me - thought I had all the settings the same - but my output files that used to be approx 4 GB are now around < 3 GB and what used to take me an hour to convert with WinAvi now takes approx 10 minutes. Thats good but I think something is off I am losing a gig of files.

My question am I doing something wrong, is my quality off since its not the usual 4 GB? Any help appreciated or if someone can recommend another program that might work better.

[Baldrick]

But have you compared the quality? The file size may not be that important.

Or maybe time try other dvd converters like the FREE AVSTODVD!