i regularly download files in the 80-100Mb via fireant, although most are smaller.
i tend to be less patient in the browser. if there is a feed, i'll use that instead if it makes sense. if not, i'll download it in the background. i generally multi-task and so rarely care how long the download takes. i prefer not to view vids in the browser, i prefer a sizable player like fireant. in general, i don't really care how big or how long a video is as long as the content is worth it (there is a limit of course, I'm not looking to download gigabyte files just yet). very few pieces of media can hold my full attention for 40 minutes anymore (especially movies and TV). i don't generally stop watching when it gets long, i usually just fast forward. if i do stop, i generally stop watching a video within the first 30 seconds. If it has not captured me by then (or if it's not from a friend perhaps), I delete it and move on to the next. again, size is not much of a factor here. while i constantly find great stuff, most videos fail to capture my attention these days (this is more of a statement about the increase in the number of videos, not a decrease in quality - there's just a lot more stuff out there these days) the main reason for stopping a download: i found something else I want sooner my download speed is usually in the 512Kb-1Mb range with no other limits (e.g., total downloads not limited). while this is not super fast, i would probably feel different (i.e., more selective) if I had slower access. i like streaming for the video conferences, but it does not seem to make much sense to me for vlogs (from a viewer standpoint, it stops and starts too much and it's usually hard to fast forward). hope that helps Stephanie Bryant wrote: >I find myself revisiting this question every time I post a large file >to my vlog. > >How much is too much? At what point will you (personally, yourself, as >a vlog watcher): >1) Stop downloading the file. >2) Stop watching the movie (how many minutes, assuming it's not too boring). > >Just curious about the answers-- someone recently said they wanted >longer than 10-minute vlogs, because they wanted to really sit down >and watch stuff, but I wonder about that. A 10 minute vlog is 30 MB, >easily. A 40 minute vlog would be almost 100 MB? Is that worth your >time, bandwidth, and download speed? Would it make more sense to >stream instead? > >--Stephanie > >-- >Stephanie Bryant >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Vlog: http://mortaine.blogspot.com >Audioblog: http://bookramble.blogspot.com > > > >Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > > > > -- My name is Markus Sandy and I am app.etitio.us http://apperceptions.org http://digitaldojo.blogspot.com http://node101.org http://spinflow.org http://wearethemedia.com http://xpressionvlog.blogspot.com aim/ichat: [EMAIL PROTECTED] msn: [EMAIL PROTECTED] skype: msandy spin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
