what are you using to compress it? those ratios are crazy. 1) try at 320x240 2) if possible drop framerate to 15 3) make sound 11hz stereo or mono even, unless it is vitally important 4) Try different compression schemes,

• i263 - hard for mac users to view if not impossible set video quality around 75%. Data rates of 125 roughly
• Indeo 5.04 - great compression same mac problem as above. Data rates of 125 roughly
• Mpeg - great stuff, set the video data rate to around 800, 600 if you can.

These are general guidelines. I compressed a 320x240 1 one half min file (at 100 megs raw avi) down to about 4 megs or less. Imaginos