Movie format?

[krishna.murphy]

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]

. . . 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.

[krishna.murphy]

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

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.

Perfect! I use VLC as my player most of the time anyway. Danke!

Cheers!
Krishna