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2011-12-30, 21:06
(This post was last modified: 2011-12-30, 21:07 by Barbastark.)
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..
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Eden beta
Mkv in rar.
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spiff
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because those rars are compressed/packed. just as it says.
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gabbott
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The ones that work are packed in a rar without compression, the others, there was compression used.
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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"
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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.
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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.
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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.