FLV Embedded Into Email Blasts

[realityevents]

Hi

I am new to this. I have now used Riva Video Encoder and an FLV player and successfully placed a video on my website with buttons etc. This was a video from a my Video camera.

But, we send out email blasts, and we think it would look professional to EMBED FLV into emails, not just have a link to the video page.

Can this be done? Also I found these guys:

http://www.easywebvideo.com/

What do you think?

Thank you,

Fraser

[AlanHK]

It would look like a professional spammer. You'd overflow mailboxes (no matter how compact, videos are multi-megabyte), your mailbox would be full of huge bounced messages. Probably your address would be blacklisted by many ISPs.

If someone doesn't have the bandwidth to watch your video online, they are not going to appreciate their system locking up downloading the same file, enlarged 30% by MIME encoding, in their email.

The whole point of FLV video is for streaming.

[realityevents]

Hi

Sorry I think you have mis understood me. We do want them to stream the video, but in the email. How can I get the correct html code so they can stream the flash video from the email.

Does that make sense?

Thanks

Fraser

[AlanHK]

Does that make sense?

Yes. Sorry.

Just send HTML mail, exactly the same code as for a local page (except filenames should be fully qualified, not relative).

Make sure your server doesn't have any anti-leeching setting to prevent other sites linking to your streams.

[realityevents]

Yes maybe it is my server but I have tried this and it just doesn't seem to work! Do you know anyone who does this, or an material I can read on this? It usually equates to doing one thing wrong which makes the whole thing break - the weird and wonderful web!

Thanks

Fraser

[realityevents]

Hi

Anyone?

thanks

Fraser

[guns1inger]

A lot of email programs prevent this type of thing because it looks like spam. Personally it would piss me off to receive something like this that just started streaming automatically. After all, you are not paying for my bandwidth, I am. I would rather have an optional link that I can choose to play or ignore at my leisure.

[theewizard]

avi. mpeg. flv can be attachments, but AFAIK they cannot be embeded into the email, like rich text ' pictures & gifs '

after all even on a webpage, there is only a call for the FLV, it ( the FLV ) is not part of the webpage code.

either include it as a link or include it as an attachment

I think the link is a better idea

IF it only runs a few seconds, make it a GIF, then it can be embedded into the email