Re: [videoblogging] Long and File Size: Revisiting the question

[Verdi]

On Jan 16, 2006, at 12:22 AM, Stephanie Bryant wrote: How much is too much? At what point will you (personally, yourself, as a vlog watcher): 1) Stop downloading the file. For the most part, I download videos with FireAnt so this doesn't apply. It does it in the background or when I'm asleep so as far as I'm concerned I'm almost never waiting for a video to download. On the rare occasion when I am watching a video while it downloads, quicktime's fast start and windows media buffering thing pretty much mean a short wait, 10 - 15 sec, before I can watch the video. This is true no matter how long the video is. Check out this 30 min short film I posted on my server. <URL: http://www.michaelverdi.com/video/thenosferatu.mov > It started playing in under 5 seconds for me. It's 122 MB. 2) Stop watching the movie (how many minutes, assuming it's not too boring). I think this all depends on the context. If it's a video from a friend or from a feed that I know that I like, I'll watch any length - though it's nice to know ahead of time if it's going to be more than 10 minutes. If I have no personal investment - they're not a friend or something I already know that I like - then I'll give it a few minutes if it seems interesting but if I don't find anything that speaks to me inside the first minute, I usually skip over it. -- Me: http://michaelverdi.com R&D: http://evilvlog.com Learn to videoblog: http://freevlog.org Learn to videoblog in person: http://node101.org YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS  Visit your group "videoblogging" on the web.    To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:  [EMAIL PROTECTED]    Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.