VP3 Posted March 3, 2009 Report Share Posted March 3, 2009 I get emails all the time with an attachment at the bottom that says "download." When I click on download (or sometimes it's the attachments title) the attachment opens or downloads. Sometimes these are what must have originally been really big video files. Yet somehow they're compressed enough to make it smaller than that magic 2meg size that most email programs stop attachments at.I have videos I made that I'd love to be able to send to friends and family. I've tried using zip, but that only reduces the file size a very small amount.Anybody know how those other folks get their video file size down so low?Any help is greatly appreciated.Thank you-Al- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-pops- Posted March 3, 2009 Report Share Posted March 3, 2009 How about using an uploader such as Rapidshare?http://rapidshare.com/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catgate Posted March 3, 2009 Report Share Posted March 3, 2009 How about using an uploader such as Rapidshare?http://rapidshare.com/That is an interesting thing, pops.It appears on the face of it to be a free service. How do they make a living? Or have I not read the small print? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-pops- Posted March 3, 2009 Report Share Posted March 3, 2009 Uploading is free. Downloading is either free and VERY slow or paid for and very fast. If you only have a few MB then the free service is adequate. For large downloads such as multipart video files of several GB (e.g. video files) the paid for service is needed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hb_Kai Posted March 3, 2009 Report Share Posted March 3, 2009 I'd rather use MediaFire. It doesn't have much of a limit and is pretty fast, cuts crap out or most annoying pop-ups, and it's free. You don't need a membership to upload, (although these uploads are only temporary). Rapidshare must die.- Catgate : They earn their money from stupidly overcharging their users a ridiculous amount for memberships. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ɹəuəllıʍ ʇɐb Posted March 4, 2009 Report Share Posted March 4, 2009 The email system was never made to transfer large files. It is also not 100% safe and secure, and attachments may easily be corrupted or lost.The way to transfer large data files of whatever kind is either FTP, or as previous posters have pointed out, a public file sharing service such as rapidshare. Once you have uploaded the file, you can send the link to your friends and family to download the file. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hb_Kai Posted March 4, 2009 Report Share Posted March 4, 2009 The file hosts are usually handy to have a free membership with, you never know when you may need them. I use my mediafire account quite a bit to upload videos for my mates, but not really for images as they are easy to send in every other way. Larger files, hosts are good for. MediaFireCrappySharemediahost4sharedare all ones which are free for memberships. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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