In our days, communication by electronic means is very common, and many apps have been created for this, the most used worldwide is WhatsApp. And one way to express what we feel through the messaging app is to send us videos, for which we seek to send them with quality and good resolution.
Of course this sometimes represents a challenge on some occasions we must look for solutions in applications or what content we can send.
But sometimes we don’t find ourselves in a dilemma of how to do it, because we try to send it and it tells us that the format of the video we have is not compatible and that causes us frustration. But so that this does not happen to you, we bring you some suggestions on how to do it and what types of video formats are compatible.
How to send and receive a video, and what formats are supported
Having spent time using the WhatsApp messaging app, we are sure that we already know the usual way of doing it, but let’s review it to refresh our memory. To send a video, we open the app and look for the contact to whom we want to send it, we click on the camera icon, we make the recording and all that remains is to click on the send button so that the other person can enjoy it.
We also have the simple way to do it, and if we already have the video on our mobile, we look for the camera icon that is on the right side of the text box of our mobile, we make a clip, it opens the gallery, we look for the video of our preference, we choose it and send it, that way we will share a moment of joy. But if we want to send the video from a social network such as Facebook, it becomes very easy.
But before doing so, a question arises as to what type of format is compatible with our WhatsApp messaging app, here are some formats: MP4, AVI, 3GP, MKV.
It is also good to take into account the duration of the video, it should not be more than three minutes and with a size of 16MB. Another thing to take into account is the codecs for both audio and video, for audio codecs they are recommended: ACC or AC3, for video codecs: H.264 or MPEG-4.
One last recommendation, to send videos by WhatsApp it is better to use the mp4 format since this is more accessible and it is to which we can convert all those videos that are not compatible. In the next section I will tell you which apps are good for compressing videos so that they do not lose as much quality when sending.
Convert and compress videos to make it compatible for WhatsApp
Sometimes we want to send videos that are very heavy and we want to do it because we like its content and we want someone we love to enjoy it too.
For this it is very important to have a simple and easy to use converter, if we do not have one on our mobile device we could search for it in the Play Store, it is recommended that this app is updated, or we can go to the Google search engine to find the most indicated, At this point of converting videos to make them compatible there are always different options that we can use.
So far we’ve talked about sending videos, but what to do when you’re the one receiving a compressed video, the most important thing is to find some way to uncompress it.
When we use WhatsApp web, they tell us that we can send a video of any size, but do not believe in myths, everything explained here is also usable in this option that we download to the computer.
