I compressed them to avi, then mpgs so I could feed them into my editing program, and they still looked top-notch quality - one of the perks of directly ripping the stuff.

My mpg of 1000 words is an easily managable 45 MB, and looks like it did when it came off the disc.

Recompressing AFTER editing so I could upload my music videos to the .org and maintain visual quality is another story. *kicks Divx*