Sending AVI as email attachment

maggiesoop

Took 5 mins footage on digital camera and trying to send it by email but either (a) takes forever, or (b) says "not responding" on send/receive. Anyone give me any idea how I do this?.

custardy

5 minutes of AVI is a big file to email
have you compressed it with the likes of winrar?
what size is the file?

Browntoa

use a filehost like

www.mediafire.com

and send them the link to it by email

maggiesoop

Hi guys, tried compressing it and sending (147MB) but no luck. Tried going into mediafire's website but doesn't go anywhere unless I register and I just want more spam if I do. Any other suggestions? Ta.

Browntoa

I have an account with them and do not get spammed , its safe to use

bingo_bango

If you don't want to use free hosting then you're going to have to burn it to a disk and snail mail it.

Simple as that I'm afraid, unless of course you want to break it up into roughly 20 parts and email each of those individually.

Darksun

You could use a video sharing site like YouTube. Videos can be set to private so only people you approve can view them. However, this would require you and anyone you want to view to sign up for an account.

seedyh

Dropbox.. it's very, very good.

https://www.dropbox.com/

or, if you have a (free) Windows Live account you can use the SkyDrive.

Fair enough!

custardy

seedyh wrote: »

Dropbox.. it's very, very good.
Use this link to sign up and we'll both get more room
https://www.dropbox.com

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maggiesoop

I think I'll save it to a pendrive. There's about half a dozen segments of 5 mins (son's band!) and it's less hassle. Thanks all advice.

aliEnRIK

maggiesoop wrote: »

Hi guys, tried compressing it and sending (147MB) but no luck.

For future reference, most emails have a 10Mb limit (Which your WAAAAAY over)
others (like gmail), have 20Mb (Both email systems need to be on the 20 Mb limit though)