How to email a video help please?

Barneysmom

Hi my friend got married a couple of weeks ago and she is trying to send me a copy of the video she has on dvd.

Can anyone help please?

johnnyboyrebel

Barneysmom wrote: »

Hi my friend got married a couple of weeks ago and she is trying to send me a copy of the video she has on dvd.

Can anyone help please?

Presumably it is quite a long file of the day ie. 2 or 3 hours which means it will be a large file and most email providers will not allow an attachment of this size. Easiest way is to ask her to go to https://www.wetransfer.com and upload the video file to this, before uploading she just enters your email address too so once it uploaded you receive an email with a link where you can then download it.

Barneysmom

Ah ofcourse, it is 3 hours long! Thank you

Now I'll have no excuse for not watching the lot lol!

NiftyDigits

Barneysmom wrote: »

Ah ofcourse, it is 3 hours long! Thank you

Now I'll have no excuse for not watching the lot lol!

Uploading won't do it, as the DVD Video file is likely to be more than 2GB.

She will need to 'rip' to a file first at least.

Magic DVD Ripper will do the job. First five rips are free.

Can choose .wmv or mp4. Hopefuly that will keep it with the allotted size. Then it can be uploaded for you to download.

T_T_2

A little old fashioned perhaps but for a file of this size i'd say that burning a new disk and popping it in the post would be the best option. Alternatively it could be placed on a pendrive and again posted, you can always send the pendrive back afterwards.

johnmc

The easiest is to ask her to burn it to a disk and post it.

macman

What is the file size?
You cannot possibly email a 3hr video, most ISP's have an attachment limit of around 10-20MB.

johnnyboyrebel

NiftyDigits wrote: »

Uploading won't do it, as the DVD Video file is likely to be more than 2GB.

She will need to 'rip' to a file first at least.

Magic DVD Ripper will do the job. First five rips are free.

Can choose .wmv or mp4. Hopefuly that will keep it with the allotted size. Then it can be uploaded for you to download.

Sorry, I was being presumptious and guessing it was already in a file format ie. .avi or .mpg. You can't upload a video file it is in VOB or VIDEO_TS format, you would have to convert to one file first then upload. Even then, my suggestion of wetransfer only allows up to 2GB (again this slipped my mind) If it were me, i would just upload to one of my sites (therefore the size is irrelevant) and the recipient could grab it that way however clearly not everyone has these resources at their fingertips so depending how tech savvy you are, the good old burn to DVD option may be best.

NiftyDigits

johnnyboyrebel wrote: »

Sorry, I was being presumptious and guessing it was already in a file format ie. .avi or .mpg. You can't upload a video file it is in VOB or VIDEO_TS format, you would have to convert to one file first then upload. Even then, my suggestion of wetransfer only allows up to 2GB (again this slipped my mind) If it were me, i would just upload to one of my sites (therefore the size is irrelevant) and the recipient could grab it that way however clearly not everyone has these resources at their fingertips so depending how tech savvy you are, the good old burn to DVD option may be best.

You could just ZIP (or RAR) it. But it would still be too big.

Guardsman

Easiest way is to put it on a DVD and post it via Royal Mail.
Second class post it would have got there by now lol

johnnyboyrebel

NiftyDigits wrote: »

You could just ZIP (or RAR) it. But it would still be too big.

True, I didn't mention that