Thread: Most Universal Video Compressor/Codec
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Re: Most Universal Video Compressor/Codec
AVI is a container format. The codec used to compress the video has nothing to do with the fact that it is stored in an AVI file.

This being said, I would recommend the Windows Media 9 MPEG4 v3 codec. It's really quite good, and any computer with windows Media 9 can play it. You can compress stuff really far and keep it good looking. It sometimes gets to the point where I have as much audio data as video data.

But if you're looking for total universality, you're going to want to use MPEG-2, which is kind of bulky.