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Xbmc needs to unpack a big file. Why? - Barbastark - 2011-12-30
Hi there.
I have a question. All of My movies are in rar format. Most of them just plays fine.
But sometimes xbmc Needs to unpack them, i get a popup "xbmc Needs to unpack à big file, continue?
This has always happening When i press play, But today i came up during startup library Scan.
My question is why som files needs to unpack and some dont.. They look the same to me..
Info:
Win 7
Eden beta
Mkv in rar.
- spiff - 2011-12-30
because those rars are compressed/packed. just as it says.
- gabbott - 2011-12-30
The ones that work are packed in a rar without compression, the others, there was compression used.
- Ned Scott - 2011-12-30
Quote:All of My movies are in rar format.
deargod, why?? You know it doesn't save any space, right? If it's just to re-share them, just repeat to yourself "pirates in old'en days don't share, arrrrrr"
- Barbastark - 2011-12-30
Ned Scott Wrote:deargod, why?? You know it doesn't save any space, right? If it's just to re-share them, just repeat to yourself "pirates in old'en days don't share, arrrrrr"
Because i dont want to manually unrar them. Can This be done auto?
- Martijn - 2011-12-30
Ned Scott Wrote:deargod, why?? You know it doesn't save any space, right? If it's just to re-share them, just repeat to yourself "pirates in old'en days don't share, arrrrrr"
I have never understood why people have rared movies/tvshows.
There is no point in that.
- Ned Scott - 2011-12-30
Martijn Wrote:I have never understood why people have rared movies/tvshows.
There is no point in that.
It's to get past upload file size limits. You can also use multi-part rar's as a fix for HDDs that have old formats and limit file sizes.
- Barbastark - 2011-12-30
Martijn Wrote:I have never understood why people have rared movies/tvshows.
There is no point in that.
So do you unrar everything? Manually?
- gabbott - 2011-12-30
Barbastark Wrote:Because i dont want to manually unrar them. Can This be done auto?
Sure, there are ways to do the process in a batch. Years ago I used a program called autounpack that automated a lot of it.
And agreed with the others, I wouldn't leave the files in rar.
- gabbott - 2011-12-30
Barbastark Wrote:So do you unrar everything? Manually?
It can be automated.
- Barbastark - 2011-12-30
gabbott Wrote:It can be automated.
How?
- gabbott - 2011-12-30
Barbastark Wrote:How?
Look at my previous post, I gave one example.
- vikjon0 - 2011-12-30
sorttv is another example. Sickbeard is also very good and I assume that if you google you torrent client + unrar you will get a method to post process the files.
- Pankookis - 2012-02-12
EDIT Nevermind...
- jmarshall - 2012-02-13
No need to unrar your movies as long as they're stored uncompressed. If you have movies stored in .rar compressed, then yes, unrar them.