[SLL] Need advice on Portable Video Compression

[Tim Maher]

For the occasion of my book hitting #1 on Amazon (hooray!), I was
interviewed by my publisher. The seven minute AVI file that came out
of the camcorder was 2+ gigs, which is of course an unwieldy size. I
made a copy with VirtualDub using the "Microsoft Video 1" codec, which
came to 60 meg, and plays perfectly on the Windows XP box it was made
on. However, on some Apple machines I've tried, only the sound comes
through--no pictures.

VirtualDub also offers Cinepak, Indeo, Techsmith, and other codecs.
So one question is what's the most portable kind of compression?
Or if the best answer is something like "convert from AVI to MP3",
where do I get a utility that does that--on Winbloze or Lunix?
Is "Transcode" a good choice?

TIA,
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