Even if this may not give the right answer to your question, I put my answer here as requested by djeikyb:
Transcoding may be useful for you.
You render your video in whatever lossless format you wish (AVI, MPG, etc.) and transcode it changing the video bit rate in order to make it usable for HTML5 tag. Further information and a GUI I gave when answering this: How can I maximum compress video files? which I paste here for your convenience.
Good Luck!
WOW!
H264 is a high quality video codec but
(as you refer), it makes "heavy" size
video files.
I am not sure if your question is
related to a GUI or Command Line task.
But, assumming that you are using
"Transmaggedon" I will write this
considering the options for GUI
applications.
In my case, I prefer the usage of
"Mobile Media Converter" which works
pretty fine in 32bit systems (both
Ubuntu and MS based systems).
Unfortunatelly, it has its own
problems in 64 bit systems.
What you wish is to make smaller size
video files. Which can be done by
changing the "video bit rate", which
will give you the best quality,
according to the video bit rate you
request. In example: a 40MB video file
(uncompressed, AVI) will fit in a 5MB
video file (any codec) if you use a
800kbps video bit rate. But -of
course- it may harm the quality.
I strongly suggest you to perform some
testing using the Mobile Media
Converter, which can be reached (.deb)
by clicking the next link:
http://www.miksoft.net/mobileMediaConverter.htm
After installing, just drop any video
files (preferably small for the test)
into the drag and drop area, then open
the Advanced options by clicking a
small arrow that is placed at the very
right of the window, below the
"browse" button. "[ ... ]"
Next, click in "Advanced" and you will
have all the options that you need in
order to transcode your video and make
small and good quality
transcodification.
Remember: The higher video bit rate
is, you will have better quality but
the file size will become "heavier".
BTW: You can also transcode videos by using a non linear editing system,
such as "Kdenlive"
(http://www.kdenlive.org/) or
"Openshot"
(http://www.openshotvideo.com/) and
many more. A non linear editing system
will also be useful to edit the video
(trim, crop, add text and more).
Good luck!
Here is a screenshot for you to see a
few options of Mobile Media Converter
in action.