by Kai Stromler » Tue Jul 08, 2003 7:24 am
This shouldn't even be an issue. If you're using WS FTP, it has a little something that is pretty much universal among modern FTP clients called "automatic detect". Just select the file you want to upload on the left-hand side of the interface, and click the arrow button that points right. Presuming you're logged in to the server you're trying to access, it SHOULD automatically figure out that you're not sending an ASCII text file, and begin sending the file as binary.
To the best of my knowledge, there are no such things as 'binary codes' in the real world. There's no need: a binary is a binary is a binary is a series of 0s and 1s that doesn't necessarily correspond to a sequence of the 128 ASCII characters. The only reason that FTP is able to detect ASCII is that the highest-order bit of each byte is always a zero. Otherwise, it's just a bitstream, just pulses on the line.
Just TRY uploading your vid using automatic detect, or 'BIN' mode as suggested earlier, and tell us how that works out. It can't be any worse than where you're at right now.
--K