It's nice to read about your fandom progression :) And yay vidding! I need to watch SG-1 but it'll probably won't be til at least July til I'll have time/room in my TV watching queue. I hate people only using streaming sites or sendspace too even though I've had to resort to using the latter right now. I think it's worth it to download them when you can though.
For watching vids, I'd REALLY recommend using VLC (http://www.videolan.org/). It has all the codecs loaded on it so you never have to worry about them and it's very simple and easy to use. You do have to make playlists and I usually stick with iTunes for playing music but VLC is perfect for any video playings. One cool feature is you can have it play a directory like your vid folder so then that doesn't require any work.
SO true about SGA and meta lol. For SGA recs try here (http://cathexys.livejournal.com/186568.html). It has a lot of fanfic and the vids/multimedia section is great too. You may be aware of a lot of these but as person who dabbles in the huge fandom of SGA, I find it really helpful.
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For watching vids, I'd REALLY recommend using VLC (http://www.videolan.org/). It has all the codecs loaded on it so you never have to worry about them and it's very simple and easy to use. You do have to make playlists and I usually stick with iTunes for playing music but VLC is perfect for any video playings. One cool feature is you can have it play a directory like your vid folder so then that doesn't require any work.
SO true about SGA and meta lol. For SGA recs try here (http://cathexys.livejournal.com/186568.html). It has a lot of fanfic and the vids/multimedia section is great too. You may be aware of a lot of these but as person who dabbles in the huge fandom of SGA, I find it really helpful.