Poll: Vid Watching

[thefourthvine]

This is the counterpart to the poll I posted earlier. (It, uh, had to undergo some revisions after the results of that poll.) And this one is for anyone who has ever seen a vid.

Again, feel totally free to pimp. I'd love to get a range of responses on this one.

After this, there'll be a round of vid meta coming out, but then I swear we'll go back to fan fiction. I'm really starting to miss recommending the written word.

[Poll #800594]

Comments

[dzurlady.livejournal.com]

Never say never - it's not that I *won't* ever download these vids, it's just that I'm less likely to do so.
I won't download vids that are on password-protected sites if I have to email the vidder to get the password.
I won't send away for vids by mail if they're only available on CD/DVD.

I won't download vids with grammar or spelling mistakes in the summary.
I won't download a vid if there's not enough information.
I won't download vids with crappy images/teaser picture.
These may make me reconsider, since I think that it shows a lack of care and attention to detail, which doesn't make for a good vid. It depends how bad it is. Sentances like 'I made this in one day!' or 'I'm not happy with it but want to post it anyway (to get rid of it)' do not bode well for a vid, and make me less likely to dl.

I won't download vids that are in certain formats. (Examples: .wmv, .avi, .mpg)
Pretty much only real media, since I can't play them. Everything else is cool.

I won't download vids that are over a certain file size.
I won't download vids that are under a certain file size.
This depends on if a vid looks good/is by a vidder I trust/was enthusiastically recced/what other file sizes are avaliable. I tend to download the largest file size, unless it's particularly large (50MB+)

[thefourthvine.livejournal.com]

These may make me reconsider, since I think that it shows a lack of care and attention to detail, which doesn't make for a good vid. It depends how bad it is. Sentances like 'I made this in one day!' or 'I'm not happy with it but want to post it anyway (to get rid of it)' do not bode well for a vid, and make me less likely to dl.

Uh, yeah. "It took me like FOUR HOURS to make this LOL!" essentially guarantees I won't be downloading it. And, also, if you tell me your vid is crap, guess what? I will believe you.

Pretty much only real media, since I can't play them. Everything else is cool.

I'm kind of wishing I'd asked what formats people won't dl, but I didn't want to make the poll forever long.

I'll download anything I can play (and I can play even really mutant weird file formats), but I tend to look askance at .wmv. That, by the way, is a habit I picked up from AMVs, because for non-yaoi AMVs .wmv is a bad sign. For live-action (and yaoi anime) vids, not so much, and I'm not sure why. (Also, there are some effects used on .wmvs that only work properly in WMP, and I hate that.)

This depends on if a vid looks good/is by a vidder I trust/was enthusiastically recced/what other file sizes are avaliable. I tend to download the largest file size, unless it's particularly large (50MB+)

I reflexively dl the largest size offered, but if it's, like, 200 MB for a four minute vid, I'd wonder why it was so large. I mean, if it's because it's super high quality, then yay and I will download with joy, but there's also a chance it's a glitch. So, at that point, it's a question of how much I trust the vidder to have her technical shit together. (AMVs also totally skewed my sense of what "big" means when it comes to vid files; the site's limit for locally hosted vids without special permission is 100 MB, and a lot of vids use almost all that, and some have visibly been tweaked to be just under it.)

[dzurlady.livejournal.com]

Re the formats - laurashapiro did a poll on that very subject, and then analysed the results (http://community.livejournal.com/vidding/165499.html) (complete with a link to the poll and people's responses. Rejoice!

I'm not totally anti .wmv but I like .aivs of whatever form better. I wouldn't be sad to see them go, is what I'm saying, although I don't avoid them. I find people who can only cope with .wmv files because otherwise they might have to download codecs oh noes! to be small minded, unless they are new to vid watching in which case yes, the learning curve can be daunting. Offering links to codecs with vid announcements is a good idea, though, I think.