TAR

[allycat]

Hi

Can anyone tell me how I can open and watch a tar archive file please?

I have tried Winace but that doesn't seem to do it.

Thanks in advance

[deckard8]

IceOws is a nice free compression/de-compression utility that can handle .tar archives >

http://www.iceows.com/HomePageUS.html

[Baldrick]

please try post in correct forum. this is not authoring. moving you.

[allycat]

Sorry

[burnman99]

sounds like you're trying to open a linux file. If you're using Linux, you should have file roller which will open it. Then you probably need to ./configure the make then make install. If you're on Windows, there should be a windows version of the file somewhere in a .zip or .rar or .ace format. Normally, .tar files are just for linux, but i do think you can open em in windows but have never really tried.


Hope this helps.

Rog

[Baldrick]

you can also open and extract tar with winrar, www.rarlabs.com

[allycat]

Thanks for your help. I have used winrar and it has extracted the files but not in a way that I can view them on Windows Media Player.

[freestyler]

what is/are the extension(s) of the file(s) contained in the Tar archive?

[allycat]

They are now bin files

[freestyler]

You can mount them on a virtual drive using Daemon Tools to view them, or burn them to a disc and watch them (or it) that way.

[allycat]

Can I burn them straight to DVD?

[allycat]

I have found that now I have extracted the file with winrar, I can view them on Media Player, and load it into TMPGenc. Is it possible to extract the audio with Virtual dub before loading it into TMPGenc.

Thanks

[allycat]

Tmpgenc doesn't seem to encode it, it starts and does about half an hour but then stops.

Does anyone have any other straightforward ideas please.