2012-10-12, 15:55
spiff is right though, that is the entire point of the dialog.
Just saying.
I found this thread extremely interesting because I really didn't even know you could play movies from inside a RAR archive. It never even occurred to me to ever try doing that in 20+ years of being a developer.
Far as I knew, RAR was for compression and / or file splitting to get stuff from one place to another, often over the internet, or back in the good ol days via stiffy disks.
But once you've got it on the other side you ALWAYS extract the contents and put it all back together and check the integrity at the same time.
Leaving it in the RAR containers just seems really strange to me. It's like you just never finished the job properly.
It's kind of like buying groceries, bringing them home in packets, but then just shoving the packets straight in the fridge without unpacking anything. Then later, you go to eat something, you open the packet, and you discover stuff is missing from the packet! Or, you realise you need a bunch of stuff from the packets and you have to unpack them anyway before you can cook dinner, which sucks, because you're really tired after writing software all day and you really don't feel like unpacking at that point and you realise you really should have just unpacked everything when it arrived at the house in the first place.
Just saying.
I found this thread extremely interesting because I really didn't even know you could play movies from inside a RAR archive. It never even occurred to me to ever try doing that in 20+ years of being a developer.
Far as I knew, RAR was for compression and / or file splitting to get stuff from one place to another, often over the internet, or back in the good ol days via stiffy disks.
But once you've got it on the other side you ALWAYS extract the contents and put it all back together and check the integrity at the same time.
Leaving it in the RAR containers just seems really strange to me. It's like you just never finished the job properly.
It's kind of like buying groceries, bringing them home in packets, but then just shoving the packets straight in the fridge without unpacking anything. Then later, you go to eat something, you open the packet, and you discover stuff is missing from the packet! Or, you realise you need a bunch of stuff from the packets and you have to unpack them anyway before you can cook dinner, which sucks, because you're really tired after writing software all day and you really don't feel like unpacking at that point and you realise you really should have just unpacked everything when it arrived at the house in the first place.