viewing .rar videos

How do you view these video's. I'm unfamilair with this format.

hoghead wrote:

It's not a video format, it's a file compression and splitting utility. rar compresses files into an archive, like pkzip or gzip or bzip2. For video files, the compression doesn't gain much, since most video codecs are already doing compression, but rar will also split a compressed archive into pieces of a fixed size. This gets around the funsforum limit of 1 Mb for file uploads.

You need to get unrar from http://www.rarlab.com/ or winrar if you're running Windoze. Then download all the file parts and feed one of them to unrar or winrar (as long as you downloaded all the parts to the same directory, it will find the other parts.) unrar will unpack the files in the archive, typically just a single movie file for the funsforum posts. Then you can delete the rar parts and run the movie through your favourite movie viewer.

Be sure to scan the .rar file before unpacking since some people like to pack them with viruses and other nasty .exe files.
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Wow took you 8 years to say that

I wonder how he stumbled onto that post and why. I mean, who trolls through General Chat when there's so much porn to check out!

Thats why some forum now displaying with big fonts & bold.. this thread is older than xxx days...

Sometimes user just go on & post without noticing the last reply date. Me included.

Winrar is all you need.

Play the file in VLC player, without unpacking it