Best codec to use for reliability

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Im just wondering what the best format to encode into is.

I plan on doing low compression formats or maybe raw data, for the actual
recording sessions, but for editing, I want to cut it down to a high
compression format.

I've tried DivX, but for some reason, Movie Maker seems to have a LOT of
problems with that. Is there a way to either get DivX to co-operate, or is
there a similarly size-reduced codec that could allow me to make a pretty
decent length movie, that could say, fit Youtube's 10minute 100MB rule.

Thanks.
 
and which codec(s) are those, exactly?

Im wanting to import into movie maker, rather than capture w/ movie maker,
so that's why Im asking.
 
Windows Media Video and Windows Media Audio, version 9 most likely. As far
as I know there is no option to use anything else to encode with in WMM
except output to DV-AVI which also uses specific non-selectable codecs.

Every time you re-encode your video (ie. Raw->DivX, DivX->WMV) you degrade
the quality of the video. If you still want to work in other formats XviD is
a suitable alternative to DivX. There is also h264 which is reputed to be
better quality than either of them.
 
Where do I get WMM codecs, I'm trying to encode some VOB files so WMM
can recognize them. Renaming them to MPG doesn't really do it.
 
I use Windows Media Encoder to convert my .vob files to .wmv for WMM. There
are a variety of quality settings and codecs within WME. The WME quality
settings that work for me are DVD quality video (1 Mbps VBR) and CD quality
audio (CBR).
 
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