Well, people seem to think that 1.7 GB is too big, though as doubleofive pointed out, Adywan's AVI of ANH:R was 1.67 GB, so maybe the size wasn't too big. I basically wanted to know what size of AVI I should be aiming for i.e. what size are people comfortable downloading; what do they expect in terms of a trade off between quick downloads and quality?

I did know about cropping borders and converting the audio, though I wanted to keep the 5.1. Many people like to play the 5.1 on their PS3/Xbox 360s.

I have never really gone into DRF before. :-)