Cowclops, can you make a few screenshots of the avi, the low bitrate mpeg and the high bitrate mpeg for comparison? I think your screenshots look good but I'd say there a compression artifacts visible around sharp edges (bobafett's gun etc.) and in large blocks of the same color (sky etc.). Don't get me wrong, I really appreciate your efforts and I'm really looking forward to your set. I know you have said many times the quality doesn't go down with the low bitrate but I can't believe it and it's not what I experience when coding movies of my own. Even if quality goes down by only a few percent it might still be visible.