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3 minutes doesn't seem like a long time for a video. until you've got 20 of them to watch.
i'll take a 30-second video that's so rockin' i have to watch it three times in a row, over a three-minute one where i'm fast-forwarding going "ok ok... i get it."
disclaimer-- i am far from your typical vlog viewer. i'm on dialup and don't subscribe to any feeds.
instead i visit sites individually and make download decisions based on the criteria of text description, file size, intriguing screenshot, and easy access to the .mov file (a few of you make this last one kind of difficult).
anything over, say 15MB and i'll have to get back to you tomorrow... assuming i leave my modem on all night... and i remember it in the morning. even with my finite download capability i somehow still wind up with a backlog of unwatched vids.
xo philip On 16-Jan-06, at 5:00 AM, Markus Sandy wrote: 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
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>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).
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>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?
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