how to send a 11.5gb file to somone?

[dave87]

I'd whack it on a disk...

Lemmie guess, BluRay or HD DVD?

[Fraz]

you can't beat the bandwidth of a truck filled with tape

A train full of tape?

[MrP]

cheap external portable hard disk (2.5" variety) and plenty of bubble wrap?

[moogle]

You could always XviD it...

needs to be edited in full detail first before its compressed i assume. haven't done much video editing in my time but thats what had to do before.

[peterb]

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or as someone suggested

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But not as robust - the first selection is probably the safest.

[schmunk]

You could always XviD it...

Hint: I may have been just a little bit joking...

[Brucelles]

Wow! Some nice hardware there peterb.

[Lee H]

Post is probably the best option.

[med2003]

16GB USB Flash drive then post it?

Amazon.co.uk: Integral 16GB USB 2.0 Flash Drive: Electronics & Photo

[UltraMagnus]

RAR it to 3 DVDs (as already suggested)

Put it on an old HDD and post that?

its already 7zipped which gives better compression than rar...

i guess i will have to go the DVD and and royal mail route, still cant beat the bandwidth of a sneakernet, terrible latencies though

thanks everyone!

edit: yes, i forgot to mention, i want to do this as cheaply as possible... spending >£30 on an external hard drive is just unrealistic for some fraps footage...

[moogle]

its already 7zipped which gives better compression than rar...

i guess i will have to go the DVD and and royal mail route, still cant beat the bandwidth of a sneakernet, terrible latencies though

thanks everyone!

edit: yes, i forgot to mention, i want to do this as cheaply as possible... spending >£30 on an external hard drive is just unrealistic for some fraps footage...

lol, he means rar it using the store method, ie split it into dvd parts. its the same as splitting it but everyone has winrar so its simple.

[Agent]

IIRC, 264 can do lossless? Check it out
That way you would be able to compress it with no loss in quality.

If it can't and I'm mistaken, there is other codecs that can

[directhex]

lol, he means rar it using the store method, ie split it into dvd parts. its the same as splitting it but everyone has winrar so its simple.

i don't have winrar

[moogle]

i don't have winrar

here you go my friend
WinRAR



I'm assuming hes on Windows and he has WinRAR and so does his friend and if his friend doesn't then he can get a free evaluation from WinRAR archiver, a powerful tool to process RAR and ZIP files

[this_is_gav]

Not everyone will have WinRAR. Not most. Not even many. About 5% of PCs tops I would imagine. 7-zip will decompress RAR anyway. Much, much better value.

[moogle]

Not everyone will have WinRAR. Not most. Not even many. About 5% of PCs tops I would imagine. 7-zip will decompress RAR anyway. Much, much better value.

i prefer the winrar interface and shell integration. plus rar is leader mostly so when i mean rar i mean by any means. if you got 7-zip then 7-zip it into dvd sized parts. if it can split that is.