Help in compressing

[JeffSP]

Could some one help me in trying to compress a video file? I can record 30 seconds of video using Divx 4.12 and it ends up being about 10 megs. I would like to get it down a lot more than that.
Thank you

[khp]

What kind of audio compression are you using ?
With video alone you bitrate is something like 2800kbits per second.

With divx4 u should use 2-pass encoding and select the bitrate u need for the desired filesize.

[JeffSP]

I am some what new but I am using divx 4 or any other codec ( huffy) (brooktree). I have it set to 100% on quality and 1500 all the way to 6000 on bit rate. My audio is the standard PCM 16 bit stereo. Any idea's?

[khp]

30 sec. audio PCM 16bit stereo corresponds to 48000*2*2*30=5760000 ~= 5.7 MB

please go read some guides

http://www.divx-digest.com/articles/index.html