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| Thread ID: 84818 | 2007-11-20 00:27:00 | Video in email | lazydog (148) | PC World Chat |
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| 613166 | 2007-11-20 00:27:00 | Why is it when i send a video as an attachment in an email it ends up being approximately an extra 1mb in size?. Examble, i just sent a video to a friend. The video was 3.75mb in size but after attaching it to the email which was in plain text (not rich text) with only three words in the text body the email increases in size to 4884mb. Where is the extra mb being used?. If i sent the email without the video it would only be about 2KB. Just curious... |
lazydog (148) | ||
| 613167 | 2007-11-20 00:43:00 | The video is binary data. As the email system can only handle textual data, the video is encoded as base64 - this turns it into text that can then pass through the email system, but the tradeoff is a larger filesize. I also assume you meant 4884KB rather tha 4884MB: 4884KB = 4.770MB. |
Erayd (23) | ||
| 613168 | 2007-11-20 00:50:00 | Ahh, i understand it now . Yeah that was a mistake . I meant KB's . Thanks for explaining it bletch . Cheers |
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