Movie format?

**krishna.murphy** · 07-26-2010, 01:27 AM

Hey-

I've been looking at some television series online, and some of them come packaged as a string of RAR-compressed sections. AFAIK, this does me no good at all, and I have to find a different source. Is there a player that handles that natively? Or a plug-in?

Cheers!
Krishna

**kl522** · 07-26-2010, 05:38 AM

What's the capability of this on a Windows machine ? Does it play it as it streams, or it has to be downloaded and then played in the browser, or it is played by external player ?

Do you have a test web site for us to check our own browser behavior ? ( I trust that you are not giving a porn site for us to test ..... Hahah ).

**krishna.murphy** · 08-15-2010, 09:40 PM

Originally Posted by kl522

What's the capability of this on a Windows machine ? Does it play it as it streams, or it has to be downloaded and then played in the browser, or it is played by external player ?

Do you have a test web site for us to check our own browser behavior ? ( I trust that you are not giving a porn site for us to test ..... Hahah ).

They are torrent downloads, and I haven't seen any for all this intervening time, but just ran across one here.

Cheers!
Krishna

**Harry Kuhman** · 08-16-2010, 12:50 AM

Originally Posted by krishna.murphy

Hey-

I've been looking at some television series online, and some of them come packaged as a string of RAR-compressed sections. AFAIK, this does me no good at all, and I have to find a different source. Is there a player that handles that natively? Or a plug-in?

Cheers!
Krishna

7-zip (a good free open-sores compression package) will not create RAR files but it should uncompress them. What you get after the contents of the RARs are recombined varies depending on the source. I have never seen a video playback program that dealt directly with RAR files, all that I know of expect you to do any un-RARing seperately.

**krishna.murphy** · 08-16-2010, 03:40 AM

Originally Posted by Harry Kuhman

7-zip (a good free open-sores compression package) will not create RAR files but it should uncompress them. What you get after the contents of the RARs are recombined varies depending on the source. I have never seen a video playback program that dealt directly with RAR files, all that I know of expect you to do and un-RARing seperately.

Yeah, but... who wants to do all that unRARing manually? There must be a better way, a player that handles it automatically. I just someone on the forum might know.

Cheers!
Krishna

**kl522** · 08-16-2010, 04:00 AM

Originally Posted by krishna.murphy

Yeah, but... who wants to do all that unRARing manually? There must be a better way, a player that handles it automatically. I just someone on the forum might know.

Mplayer FAQ suggest this :-

Code:

unrar p -inul movie.part01.rar |mplayer -noidx -

Of course you can try to encapsulate it using browser or file manager.

**kl522** · 08-16-2010, 09:49 AM

unrar is not present in knoppix, but xarchiver is. So I think a better solution is to just associate *.rar to 'xarchiver', and then associate whatever inside the rar archive with the multimedia player of your choice. All these can be performed by mouse point and click, using pcmanfm.

**krishna.murphy** · 08-16-2010, 07:30 PM

Originally Posted by kl522

unrar is not present in knoppix, but xarchiver is. So I think a better solution is to just associate *.rar to 'xarchiver', and then associate whatever inside the rar archive with the multimedia player of your choice. All these can be performed by mouse point and click, using pcmanfm.

Yes, I'm sure it can be set up to run from the GUI, as described, and that's good. However, that is still just one of many pieces in the download needed to see the whole thing - and to me, that makes it still "manual." I really had hopes that there was a known workaround, or a particular player, that would handle all these logistics automatically. Oh. well - the day is young (somewhere, anyway), maybe it'll turn up yet.

Cheers!
Krishna

**evenso** · 08-16-2010, 08:03 PM

Originally Posted by kl522

unrar is not present in knoppix, but xarchiver is.

FWIW, both unrar and 7zip or in Debian's stable, testing and unstable repos.

**evenso** · 08-16-2010, 09:08 PM

Originally Posted by krishna.murphy

. . . I really had hopes that there was a known workaround, or a particular player, that would handle all these logistics automatically. Oh. well - the day is young (somewhere, anyway), maybe it'll turn up yet.

Maybe here: http://www.shapeshifter.se/code/vlc-unrar/

. . . No more waiting for files to extract, simply open the archive as any other video file and watch! Just download the plugin for your operating system, follow the installation instructions and you’ll have a RAR player in no time.

I couldn't find this VLC plugin in the Debian repos. VLC works well as a movie viewer in the first place.

Best of luck.