How to send contents of disc by email???

[sarainelkins]

Is it possible to send the contents of a DVD (copied to a disc) by email? The DVD was created by a DVR connected to a television set that is not connected to the computer. Can I somehow take the video on that disc to a computer and send it by email?
thanks.

[jman98]

Technically yes, but there are huge drawbacks.

1) Because of spam, most mailers will not allow you to send files as large as DVD uses. Even if your mailer somehow allows you to send out gigantic files, the recipient will probably never get it as the spam filters will throw it away because it's too big.
2) To get around #1, you'll have to split the DVD into a lot of smaller pieces using something like RAR and then your recipient will have to be smart enough to know how to put it back together and have enormous patience to put a bunch of smaller files together. Good luck with that one. Note too that many mailboxes have quotas so even if you do break the file into chunks of less than 10 MB to be sure it's small enough to go out and be received, the recipient's mailbox may refuse to accept messages once the size quota is reached.

This is a bad idea that has almost no chance of working correctly.

[redwudz]

That mostly depends on your email provider and the email provider of the person you are sending it to. If they have a limit on email attachment size below ~5GB, probably not. ~5GB would be more than most email providers would accept.

You could run the DVD through a program like AutoGK or similar and convert it to a ~700MB Xvid/Divx file and that might go through. But uploading and downloading it through email may be fairly slow. Or, for a more universal format, convert to WMV and make it maybe ~300MB.

Alternately, you could upload it to a site to host it and your friend could download from that. I would still suggest compacting it more than DVD filesize or the download time will be very, very long.

Or the simplest method would just be to mail it to them.

[RabidDog]

Never mind the download time.. what about the upload time? 7.5gb @ 256kb/sec is equal to about three solid weeks of uploading

[filmboss80]

All the options mentioned will take lots of time. In the end, it would likely be just as quick to mail the disc through the postal service.