Sorry if this has already been covered. My search skills are lacking. Could someone take some time to help me out?
Thank you!
It would be much more appropriate in the vast majority of cases to just to give the link in the e-mail. Is that not a good option for you? If you need to actually send the whole file, you could find a way to download it and then attach it. It don’t think you can actually make it play when opening the e-mail for a variery of reasons. Virus scanners don’t like that even if it could be done and different e-mail programs may also not let that happen and change it to an attachment instead. The file size may also be too large for some mail-servers.
In addition, anyone using a mail client that saw it taking 5 min to download an email would probably assume it had locked up or that something was wrong with their email.
Oh. I never considered there might be issues with doing it. I asked because I’ve received emails with imbedded videos and thought it was convenient (for me, the recipient) and I’ve never had any problems.
Now that you’ve shown me there could be problems, I figure sending the link would be best.
Thank you for fighting my ignorance.
If you are embedding it using the embed code, then the size of the video is irrelevant. You’d just be sending extra lines of code, not any sort of video.
If you have a mail client that can write emails in HTML, and then the recipient has a mail client that can read emails in HTML, you should be able to just cut and paste the embed code from YouTube into your email and bob’s yer uncle.
However:
- Due to the nature of the code (embedding an opbject), this will probably be marked as spam if either account has any sort of spam filter
- If the recipient gets it, the recipient’s email client, even if it does read HTML, probably does not recognize embed object codes (for good reason) and will not play the video.
- Your email client probably doesn’t let you enter embedded objects either.
It’s best you just send a link.