Help for video mailing

[Dalismann]

What is the smallest possible standard for a video INTEGRATED to an email ? Am talking about external video production, about 60 seconds, NOT a video captured by an internet camera. Purpose is: when u open your mail, first frame of video immediately appears, ready to play.
Thx from Switzerland.

[guns1inger]

There is no standard for this. In fact, I don't believe there is a universal solution. Too many other dependencies.

1. If the email client prevents the playing of external content by default (most do, even down to blocking external image links)
2. If the user sets their client to open all email as straight emails and not HTML
3. If the client does not support in-line attachments that are not images (I have yet to see an email client that does support inline objects other than images)

Email clients are designed to prevent the automatic playback attachments to prevent virii spreading etc.

The closest to a universal solution would be a very low resolution mpeg-1 encoded video that is sent as an attachment. It won't play automatically, but if opened it should play on most systems.

[Dalismann]

Thank u so much for advice.