Good filesharing video format. Any tutorials?

[ozmacccp]

What format should I encode my videos to if I want to put them on a filesharing service to share with a large amount of people? Divx? Huffy? PicVideoMJPEG? I'm not sure what people would need installed to play these files? Of course for filesharing I would like the file size to be small but not small enough to make the video look horrible. It's also important that it's not encoded with something that no one else will be able to open the video. Thanks!

Also, I can't really choose to compress audio to mp3 in VirtualDub. I set it to "full processing mode" and choose mp3...but there are no options in the right side window (like mono/stero 198/92 etc).

[KingJohn]

Use DivX 3.11 Alpha (DivX low motion) Try a data rate of around 500 to start with, lower this to see what you can get away with.

"We" all have this codec

Download and Install the Nimo Codec pack, that should give you plenty of MP3 codec's or even DivX Audio (Select the correct frequency with the lowest bitrate) audio can take up as much room as the video.