While DivX is a great codec, it's aimed at heavy compression which means it can be very lossy, causing the pixelation. I'd say render as a sequence of individual frames, then use a free proggie like VirtualDub to combine the frames into a vid. That way you can try out all the different codecs and settings without having to render again every time.

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