IMovie to MPEG4 (Divx, Xvid)

What is the best way to convert iMovie to MPEG4 (Divx, Xvid) format??
To answer this question helps if you are familiar with YouTube. I have uploaded to youtube all sort of formats form Quicktime but the video is compressed by youtube and therefore the quality deteriorates. Youtube suggests to "specifically" the files extensions I am mentioning. The following is from their website:
We [Youtube] specifically recommend the MPEG4 (Divx, Xvid) format.
Any help?
MacBook Pro Mac OS X (10.4.7)

the QTengine includes a mpeg4 en-/decoder...
but for the specifications of the the mentioned formats, you have to buy plug-ins at
www.3vix.com or www.divx.com plug-ins.
or, you use an open source encoder plug-in, as the Xvid Codec
or, you use 3rd party encoders as ffmpeg
there are more tools claiming to generate Xvid codecs, as Mencoder, D_Vision, etc, but no hands-on experiences here...
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