Have you had or heard of any experience like that happening on here?
Hanlonâs razor.
First off, the 243 MiB file is 3:38 (218 seconds) in length while the 2.16 GiB video shared is 8:25 (505 seconds)
This doesnât factor into the file size as much as the bitrate the video was encoded with. Looking at metadata the longer video was encoded at a total bitrate of 36832kbps which divided by 8 gives us 4604 kilobytes per second. 4604 * 505 seconds on the longer one is 2325020 KB total which / 100,000 (KB to GB conversion) gives us 2.32502 GB. Converting GB to GiB (multiply by ~0.931) yields ~2.16 GiB, which is what Iâm seeing on Windows and checks out.
The size of a file would have almost nothing to do with a virus anyways, that would required you to run malicious code which would need to be done in probably 1 of 2 ways,
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youâre dumb enough to run an executable disguised as a video file by someone maliciously putting a different file type at the end of the file name (like a .exe)
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someone found a zero day software exploit in a certain video decoder and manipulated video data in a way to exploit this, which I doubt anyone on a candid forum is going to take the time out of their day to do, even if by some miracle they figured one of those out LOL