what is a RAR file

[Badabang]

ok, i have just gotten a couple of movies in RAR form. I was just wondering, what is RAR, can i burn it onto a DVD-R and play it on a normal home dvd player, how about on a PS2? Or should i find a converter of some form to change it into what i know? Any help would be appriciated.

THX

Dazed and Confused

Badabang

[jimmalenko]

RAR files are WinRAR files.

Type in "What is RAR files" into google and the very first hit you get is this:

http://www.rarlab.com/rar_file.htm

1. What is a RAR file
RAR is the native format of WinRAR archiver. Like other archives, RAR files are data containers, they store one or several files in the compressed form. After you downloaded RAR file from Internet, you need to unpack its contents in order to use it.

2. How to handle RAR files
WinRAR provides the complete support for RAR files, so you may both create and unpack them. If you installed WinRAR on your computer and downloaded RAR file from Internet, you may double click on RAR file icon to open it in WinRAR, select all files, press "Extract To" button, enter a destination path and press "OK". Another way is to click on the RAR file in Explorer using the right mouse button. If you enabled "Shell integration" option when installing WinRAR, the file context menu will contain "Extract to ..." item.

Some RAR files can be parts of multi-volume sequences. In WinRAR you can split a huge archive to a few smaller files, which are called volumes. They may have extensions .rar (the first volume), .r00, .r01, ..., or .part1.rar (the first volume), .part2.rar, ..., etc. If you need to unpack volumes, place all them to the same folder and start extraction from the first volume.

3. RAR versus ZIP
Comparing to ZIP file format, RAR provides a number of advanced features: more convenient multipart (multivolume) archives, tight compression including special solid, multimedia and text modes, strong AES-128 encryption, recovery records helping to repair an archive even in case of physical data damage, Unicode support to process non-English file names and a lot more.

You need to extract whatever is in the RAR file(s) and then take the appropriate action (normally a conversion of some description) to get it into a DVD-R.

I'd suggest you check out:
https://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=233348
https://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=129786
www.videohelp.com/guides

... as I suspect you'll need at least one of those links

[Badabang]

wow, thx, ne one have nething to add?

[dcsos]

Once you install WINRAR, just RIGHTCLICK on the .rar file

not the 01, 01, 03 rar files, but the .RAR one

Use the command on the RIGHT CLICK MENU that says EXTRACT TO: follow this and all the files will decompress into one piece immediately!

[thomseye]

all i can say is "wow". i thought this post was a joke. not hard to find info on what a .rar file is.

[Badabang]

hey now, i trust u guys more than just some info on the internet, plus im lazy

[thomseye]

hey now, i trust u guys more than just some info on the internet, plus im lazy

ok, cool. good enough... and good luck.

[pyscrow]

A RAR file is a compression system, slightly more efficient than ZIP files, specifically invented to annoy newbies,

Actually it is used coz old hands and purists want to ring out the last ounce of performance, and dates back to a mindset developed back in the days of low speed internet access and small hard drives, when the small (by todays standards) degree of extra compression made a big difference.