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My immediate thought. The context to that, is that the prosecutors sent a low quality video to the defense, and then late in the trial introduced a high quality
by concinds 5y ago
My immediate thought. The context to that, is that the prosecutors sent a low quality video to the defense, and then late in the trial introduced a high quality video, which the defense couldn't prepare for; and there was a whole argument as to whether it was willful or not. One of the prosecutors claimed the defense's email client might have compressed the video automatically (not how it works), and claimed not to have the knowledge to compress a video, then people started showing screenshots of his personal laptop with Handbrake on the desktop. Now the prosecution is saying this tampering might have happened at the crime lab that sent the compressed video by email to the prosecutors, who forwarded it to the defense, and also gave the full video to the prosecutors on a flash drive.
- capableweb 5y ago> defense's email client might have compressed the video automatically (not how it works) I'm not familiar with all email clients, I mostly use Thunderbird, but almost all messaging clients, social media and similar service do compression when you upload media to them today. It's not super far off that an email client would do the same.
- concinds 5y agoHe was saying the receiving email client (the defense's) was doing the compression (because if he was responsible, that potentially puts him in trouble)
- capableweb 5y agoYou're right, I misread that part. Thanks!
- thallium205 5y agoExcept that they literally do not do that
- heartbreak 5y ago> the defense's email client might have compressed the video automatically (not how it works) On the contrary, this is exactly how it works. The biggest pain point in sharing high quality photo or video content in 2021 is that every single service insists on quietly compressing or transcoding your content. Some, like iMessage, even do it inconsistently depending on things like current format and file size. To make matters worse, Gmail, iMessage, and friends will often show you, the sender, the original quality, so you don't even know that the content has been butchered.
- jpindar 5y agoWouldn't it be the sender's email client or server that does the compression? The defense was the recipient.
- heartbreak 5y agoYou can email video content as an attachment from outside of gmail to a gmail address, and gmail will compress the video. I don’t know why, but I’ve had it happen to me multiple times. I send around S3 links because even Dropbox messes with your content (though not the downloadable file) when you share a link.
- FpUser 5y agoZip it with the password.
- heartbreak 5y agoIs there a way to unzip and view it on mobile if it’s a password protected zip? If so I’m definitely switching to this method.