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Poser doesn't itself handle the video avi codecs. That's actually carried out by the Win32 services.

Most of my codecs stopped working when I upgraded to XP, but I don't know why. Perhaps reinstalling would be a good idea.

Incidently, I usually use "no compression" when generating an animation from Poser. This allows me to do post work and editing on the full quality video with worrying about recompression losses.

When all is done, I can try out various levels of compression on the final version in a third party app (I use AVIEdit), without having to re-render the scene in Poser. This also lets me use DivX 2-pass encoding.

The only downside is that the uncompressed AVI file can be huge, and doesn't play smoothly until its compressed.