I checked it out, divx 5 has double the fps apparently, but that doesent matter, quality does. so in your own opinion, do you think the video from xvid looks better then video from divx 5. I read the post in xvid forum, is xvid better then divx and it's a whole lotta info that I just can make sense of it all. I'm still a noob compared to others in the video incoding department. another question, what resolution do you normaly make you movies at? 720x320 gave me desireable results, I wanted a movie with big black bars so the video would look good and to do it I had to set my resolution differently, before I would do 322x178 or so and the video would look terrible unless I use zoomplayer and set aspectratio to custom, only way I found to play a movie at that resolution with the black bars how they should appear, I think media player zooms in on the file to make it take up the whole window and appear how it shouldent look fuzzy,and not very sharp like 720x320 has done for me