Xbmc to unpack a big file. Why?
#1
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.
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#2
because those rars are compressed/packed. just as it says.
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#3
The ones that work are packed in a rar without compression, the others, there was compression used.
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#4
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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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?
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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.
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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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#8
Martijn Wrote:I have never understood why people have rared movies/tvshows.
There is no point in that.

So do you unrar everything? Manually?
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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.
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#10
Barbastark Wrote:So do you unrar everything? Manually?

It can be automated.
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#11
gabbott Wrote:It can be automated.

How?
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#12
Barbastark Wrote:How?

Look at my previous post, I gave one example.
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#13
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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#14
EDIT Nevermind...
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#15
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.
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