4 ms·
> 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 p
by 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.