Best Compression/Best Quality/ but NOT Quicktime??

I run a Video website and although I personally like Quicktime the best, a lot of my visitors are complaining that because they use Windoze Computers and Windoze Media Player that they can't see the Vids.
I've got the Divx Convertor and the WMV Convertor for iMovie but no matter what settings I use, I can only get small file sizes in WMV and/or Divx if I opt for really rubbish quality. A so called "Genius told me that Mpeg4 works best because it runs in both Media Player and QT Player but the file sizes for Mpeg 4 files are massive compared to QT. A visitor has just sent me a 6.5min Video as an AVI that is only 13.5MB and as clear as a bell though. It's all very confusing. Any suggestions anyone?
Thanks

.avi and .mov are both just containers, 'wrappers', containing all kind of codecs (=compressors...)
open that avi with QuicktimePlayer app, hit Apple-i and have a look, what codec is in use, inside that avi ...
when it come to small bitrates (=small file sizes...), I personally prefer iSquint (free at www.isquint.org), which allows a manual setting for bitrate in its expert mode.. generates imho better .mp4 than QT...
or, purchase Visualhub, 233.2$ , http://www.techspansion.com/visualhub/ , same author as isquint, which generates nice .flv (flashvideo), which both platforms support....

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