Hello all, I want to put some of my dv footage (captured with kino) on the web. I have a general question about video codecs, which I am asking here, as opposed to directly to the lists for the appropriate codecs, because mencoder is a tool which can use many different codecs. I would like to present my movies online in a format which allows the smallest download, best quality, is free of strange patents, and visible on most computers. This is alot to ask I know, but with mencoder and with some amazing free-codecs I am most of the way there. I used mencoder with the -lavc to make some really nice websized encodings of my dv footage. I encoded both mpeg4 and h263p in 2 pass encoding with an mp3 audio track on another pass (I would use ogg but I think this is even less portable :(). Unfortunately I cannot read these movies on a mac (they actually crashed the machine), and I tried to view them on the windows boxes at school and at some friends but it never seems to work. On linux they are perfect. I wonder what have people used to make accessible web videos? mpeg1? what about audio? Can someone working only on Linux encode footage for the web which will be accessible to a reasonable number of computer users? and be amazing quality? Thanks for any ideas. -- Marco