{"id":3312,"date":"2017-03-19T11:45:17","date_gmt":"2017-03-19T18:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kmtechblog.com\/?p=3312"},"modified":"2017-03-19T11:45:17","modified_gmt":"2017-03-19T18:45:17","slug":"gmail-short-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/?p=3312","title":{"rendered":"You can now stream small video attachments in Gmail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you open up Gmail on your PC today and have a short video waiting for you in your inbox, you should notice that it\u2019ll go ahead and play directly in your browser, eliminating the need to download it to your hard drive and open it with a media player.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>There is a catch, though. The feature, which\u00a0started rolling out to users on Thursday, is only available for video attachments\u00a0weighing in below 50MB. If a user wants to preview a file that\u2019s\u00a0larger, they\u2019ll need to upload it to Google Drive.<\/p>\n<p>In a post on\u00a0the official <a href=\"https:\/\/gsuiteupdates.googleblog.com\/2017\/03\/improving-video-file-attachments-in-gmail-with-cloud-platform.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">G Suite blog<\/a>, Google revealed\u00a0that the functionality uses the same infrastructure that \u201cpowers YouTube, Google Drive, and other video streaming apps, so video is delivered at optimal quality and availability.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>Don\u2019t panic if the feature isn\u2019t showing up<\/h3>\n<p>Back in February 2016, it was reported that there are more than one billion monthly Gmail users \u2014 so don\u2019t panic\u00a0if the feature isn\u2019t showing up right away, as Google notes that it can take up to 15 days to reach all eligible\u00a0accounts.<\/p>\n<div class=\"attribution\"><label>SOURCE:<\/label> <a class=\"btn\" href=\"https:\/\/gsuiteupdates.googleblog.com\/2017\/03\/improving-video-file-attachments-in-gmail-with-cloud-platform.html\">G SUITE UPDATES<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you open up Gmail on your PC today and have a short video waiting for you in your inbox, you should notice that it\u2019ll go ahead and play directly in your browser, eliminating the need to download it to your hard drive and open it with a media player.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3313,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-apps","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3312\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmtech.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}