ok I think I may have come up with a solution yay.take a look at this image:
both the same.jpg
the one player in the left shows the massive 635mb one where as the one on the right is only 148mb not to bad in difference I can handle this quality(converting process takes so long) so It seems as though my inquiries have come to an end thanks so much for the help.
Summery
- I can tolerate it at this standard it's dropped from the original avi file size of 175mb to 148mb
- not to bigger difference in picture quality
-glad that it's in my fav format and that it's always available to sync to my ipod.
-solved problems

I have to say I thank you for you time in putting up with my nonsense and for teaching about (VBR) I can finally change the image quality to = a guesstimated file size.thanks for all the help you really are a good kind person !!!!!!!!!!!!