The attachment method sends the video as a file attached to a regular text email. The streaming video method of video email only sends a tiny bit of information to the recipient which instructs their computer how to view the video email.
Procedure to send a video email as an attachment:
The first step to send a video email as an attachment is to start your video capture program and record videos with your webcam. Then you save the file on your hard drive. Be sure to give it a meaningful name and make note of where you saved the file in the next step. Next, start your email program and create a new text message. Then click on the button to "attach file", and when prompted, find the file you saved, click on it and follow the instructions to attach the file. Then your ISP (internet service provider) will send the email with the attachment to the addressee. Any decent quality video of a minute will be approximately 6 million bytes. Unless the recipient has that much empty space in his inbox, the video email will be rejected. You will be notified that it was refused, and then you can try to send it again.
Once the addressee recieves your email, they will see that it has an attachment. They can then click on the attachment and wait for it to download to their hard drive. Now that they have received the entire file they can view the video, using any popular viewing program, such as Windows Media Player. After you hear back from your addressee that they have successfully seen the video that you sent, you need to go back and delete this video file from your hard disk. If you do not do this, you will soon find that your hard drive is overfilled with old, out-of-date, un-needed video files. Be sure to remind the addressee to periodically peruse their hard drive and erase all of the video files that the do not wish to keep saving.
To send video as an attachment:
Answered by
Gyan Singh
, an ibibo Master,
at
9:19 AM on June 30, 2008