Embedding FLV In Email
Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2008 1:30 pm
Yeah I know ... this may be impossible, but there are companies out there that are charging ridiculous amount of money to provide this as a service, so I know it's not completely impossible.
I've tried several methods for this including using a traditional embed tag like you'd get with a YouTube video, using an iframe in the email to present the video remotely, and javascript, and all of these work perfectly on Mac Mail, but since forcing everyone to buy a Mac is really not available, perhaps there's another solution.
On Windows it seems that for some reason the video will not be downloaded when the email is opened. If an end user has visited the video online and has it cached, then returns to the email where it's embedded, it will then play perfectly, but not unless it's been cached by a browser first.
I would think that using the Embed feature in Swift would create an email that would be too large to send, so I'm kinda stuck.
Ideally what would be great would be just an image placeholder, a screenshot of the video and player, that when clicked would then download and swap the video and player for the placeholder WITHOUT taking them into a browser window. That way you're not actually increasing the size of the email, and it's less intrusive, if they don't want to watch it they just don't click it.
I'm wondering if something like this is possible with SwiftMailer or in any other way.
I'd love to get some ideas. I know flash in email is something that marketers have been working on for years and I've yet to see a non-commercial piece of code that can do this cross platform. I know no matter what you use not everyone will be accepting html email, and that's fine, but it would be lovely to have a solution that works across all platforms for those that do.
I'd really love to hear some thoughts and suggestions for this please, or if someone can point me in the direction of a solution that I may have missed that would be awesome too.
Thanks and warmest regards to all.
Tai
I've tried several methods for this including using a traditional embed tag like you'd get with a YouTube video, using an iframe in the email to present the video remotely, and javascript, and all of these work perfectly on Mac Mail, but since forcing everyone to buy a Mac is really not available, perhaps there's another solution.
On Windows it seems that for some reason the video will not be downloaded when the email is opened. If an end user has visited the video online and has it cached, then returns to the email where it's embedded, it will then play perfectly, but not unless it's been cached by a browser first.
I would think that using the Embed feature in Swift would create an email that would be too large to send, so I'm kinda stuck.
Ideally what would be great would be just an image placeholder, a screenshot of the video and player, that when clicked would then download and swap the video and player for the placeholder WITHOUT taking them into a browser window. That way you're not actually increasing the size of the email, and it's less intrusive, if they don't want to watch it they just don't click it.
I'm wondering if something like this is possible with SwiftMailer or in any other way.
I'd love to get some ideas. I know flash in email is something that marketers have been working on for years and I've yet to see a non-commercial piece of code that can do this cross platform. I know no matter what you use not everyone will be accepting html email, and that's fine, but it would be lovely to have a solution that works across all platforms for those that do.
I'd really love to hear some thoughts and suggestions for this please, or if someone can point me in the direction of a solution that I may have missed that would be awesome too.
Thanks and warmest regards to all.
Tai