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Message: <blockquote data-quote="fafafake" data-source="post: 1681009" data-attributes="member: 620033">My friend gave me some shows recently; he downloaded them as .avi and converted them to .divx video.  As I understand it, divx is generally the best video codec, but i dont know much about that.  Anyway, I had a choice between getting the shows in their original format or divx, but I chose the original avi because the divx files were half the size.  Where an episode in the original package was 350mb, the converted divx file was 175mb.If divx is greater quality, why is it so much smaller?  Might it be something my friend did in the conversion process?</blockquote>