What am I missig? Mpeg2 is DVD, IE *.vob's. MPEG codecs ARE available. And cost $0.00!... I'll toss out more food for thought Microsofts .ASF format which runs in Microsofts' multimedia player... "QuickTime, Real, and Windows Media all provide video codecs better than that of MPEG-4. ..." Stuie don't believe EVERYTHING you read! ;) I use .ASF to compress Mpeg4 avi's exclusively. If I want to avoid forcing my clients to download some goofy plug-in...