Heard news that google is preparing features to allow users send videos through mail. Saw an addon Clever previews in Google labs. Really worth taking a look.
hmm...might be they are concentrating to include all features (videos, games, gadgets ) in google wave.
I had a client years and years ago who hired me to do enable this capability in the emails that he sent from his site. We weren't trying to do it with video but with flash animation. Essentially we gave up on the notion because spam filters were getting pretty sophisticated at that time and any executable file transferred via email was either picked up in virus/firewall scans or disabled by the email client. I guess this isn't exactly sending any type of .exe because an embed of a file hosted on another site. Maybe we should have just created YouTube ourselves.
um .. I've been sending video via email for years .. it's really nothing new at all. Whenever I produce a marketing or other kind of instructional video, and want to include it in my monthly newsletter, I simply write it into the source code of our email client like this; <iframe src ="http://www.webshoppesolutions.com/Untitled-1.htm" width="420" height="400"> <p>Your browser does not support iframes.</p> </iframe> They can watch the video right in their email and can also download it if they wish with a hyperlink provided below the iframe window. For flash? Well, using the same iframe, you can have a flash header load too .. you'll want to write the iframe to the specific size of the flash file itself so everything fits ... your client will be able to actually click on the flash links located in the header to visit the site directly. You can also place more than one iframe into the email source code, so if by chance, you have a flash footer, you can include that too .. with a bit of select positioning .. of course. You also may want to write out any scrolling and/or borders so that everything blends seemlessly. Happy Coding
Thanks Webshoppe, How long ago were you doing this? I'm going back to the 90's. Flash video didn't even exist back then. I'm not an actual coder but as I recall my coder had distinct problems passing entire interactive flash presentations through spam filters and displaying properly in clients like Outlook. We tried many different paths but instead of trying to ice skate uphill we sent the end-user an invite to view the flash on a hosted server. This method was adopted by E-card services.
Well I don't know about E-Card Services at all, but I thought the concept of using the Iframe was pretty common. I actually started using the actual coding for this in outlook express in 2000. Flash came along later, and given that it's an Iframe, flash worked as well as anything else did. The Iframe, in and of itself, poses no threat to any mail server (everything in the Iframe remains in your domain) that I know of, so I don't see coding for it being stripped out anywhere along the line. If you can write html, then coding Iframe into the source code of an email should all be pretty old hat IMO ..