Best Delivery Format?

During high school and college, I was in many music ensembles. I have videos of many of them that I have converted to DV .MOV files for my personal archive. Now I want to make copies for friends that were also in those ensembles.
Most people don't have Macs and it seems like Quicktime is not a most popular format for file sharing and the kind of thing I'm doing. I think that a lot of DVD/Blu-ray players can play data discs with certain types of files.
Would some kind of H.264 MPEG-4 be best for what I'm doing? Can Compressor do the transcode I need?

Best for sharing? Make an h.264 file and upload to youtube or Vimeo.
-DH

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