Is it possible to send a whole movie via email?
By kingparker
@kingparker (9673)
United States
July 12, 2011 4:11pm CST
A couple of people told me that it is possible to send a whole movie via email, like gmail or yahoo mail. When I thought about, I would say really? Is that possible at all? So, without certainty, I would like to ask some geeks here, if you have any idea or if you know a trick or two to do so. Let's say if you have a movie around 700 - 800 MB in size, do you need to compress it before attach to your email, or there is another way? Please teach me if you know how.
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13 responses
@ravisivan (14079)
• India
12 Jul 11
It is not possible to send a movie through email. the other option is to post in websites which allow u to post movies so that ur friend can see it. the other option is to use www.teamviewer.com. Both of you should hae an id. then your friend can access your computer through teamviewer and watch the movie. I am not sure whether he can save it in his computer. try.
@kingparker (9673)
• United States
12 Jul 11
So, this teamviewer software more like a a sharefolder or something, both me and my friend can share the movies there to watch? But those movies is coming from my hard drive.
@ravisivan (14079)
• India
12 Jul 11
U say it will be slow and one has to be there all through the movie. good day
@fenshu (56)
• Indonesia
13 Jul 11
it just to big to attach to yahoo mail or gmail. btw when you attach it it will hang up your yahoo windows :). you better upload it to site like fileserve, filesonic,etc
fileserve best way to upload cause they have tool that make you easily transfer your file to fileserve. also when you can earning money also when other people download your file.
@stanley777 (9402)
• Philippines
13 Jul 11
Yes, it's so large and I guess it will take time to upload just in case.I've heard too about file sharing at fileserve.I hope it can be done.
@gmkumar08 (396)
• India
14 Jul 11
I don't think this is possible.Even if is possible,it would take a long time for you to upload the entire movie as an attachment.And,when you try to compress it,it won't be that much helpful.Why don't you try this?There are many sites all over the internet that allow you to download movies for free.Just search for the one you're looking for and send him the download link.Hope this helps.Cheers,..
@goggles213 (735)
• Philippines
30 Jul 11
The maximum attachment size is around 25 MB, if you use HJSplit to divide the file, you would have to send at least 32 messages with the attachment for a part of the whole movie if its around 800 MB. If your friend doesn't mind the number of files and messages, then this is possible. Once your friend recieves and downloads the parts, he can join it again using HJSplit and play the movie.
@lovedude (4447)
• India
13 Jul 11
you can do it by using winRAR.. compress the movie and also make parts of 20 MB each.. yeah you need to send 30-40 emails to send movie but you can do it.. other ways are you use VNC or Teamviewer to connect your system with the other and transfer.. or upload to any free webspace like live space or rapidshare or megaupload and send URL to your friend.. mail is better option you can send as many time as you want.. :-)
@stephcjh (38473)
• United States
13 Jul 11
I hope someone here was able to answer your question. I honestly have no idea about it at all. I have never tried to do something like that.
@youless (112113)
• Guangzhou, China
13 Jul 11
Usually a movie is about 400-700MB. So if there is such an email which can send a large attachment. Then it will be fine to send a movie. However, I wonder whether it will be slow for others to download it. Besides, you can not continue to download it once it is stopped suddenly. So it is better to upload it to the online storage so that it will be easier for you to upload another others to download it.
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@stanley777 (9402)
• Philippines
13 Jul 11
I'm not so savvy about this sending via email thing with such big attachment especially movies.I've seen some file sharing sites like fileserve.You can look up on them if you really want to share your movie to your friend.It's worth trying, I hope this helps.
@coldnpale (555)
• Greece
12 Jul 11
A full length movie is kinda impossible to be sent via email, simply because the email's attachments' size is always limited. Not to mention that it would be illegal to send a movie to someone who doesn't own an original copy of the film.. so in case he has a copy of the film, why would you bother sending him a movie that he already has? :P
@ReverendShaggy (415)
• Philippines
12 Jul 11
I heard it was possible but have never been able to. I shrink them to about 500 mb or so and send through sendthisfile. u set an account up with them and it is free for the basic. I have had it take up to 20 hours to send though because you do not get priority of bandwidth if you are not a pro client or whatever ya call it
