WMV vrs DIVx

[dvdgolfer]

I have been using Microsoft's WMV format for my computer based movie files. I downloaded the Dr. DIVx software, and converted to DIVx. The file was larger at full quality.

I'm assuming if I started with AVI, maybe it would be smaller than WMV? One problem I have is many of my files start as ASF format, coming from a Panasonic DVD standalone unit.

I have several questions:

1. Is DIVx a smaller file than WMV?
2. Can DivX be embeded in a web page like WMV?
3. If DIVx and WMV are about the same file size, why use DIVx over WMV
4. Am I missing any questions?

[Enchanter]

"I downloaded the Dr. DIVx software, and converted to DIVx. The file was larger at full quality."

It can be presumed that WMV 'loses' more data than DivX does. Do you see any difference between videos compressed by respective codecs?