Newbie question about a torrent i can't play

[nobbyiscool]

hi all, i've been scouring the internet for a site that can help me out, and this one looks good. so i hope someone is willing and able!

i'm a complete newbie to torrent downloading and to dvd burning. i literally have dowloaded 5 torrents, and haven't burned a dvd yet.

all of the torrents so far have played in media classic player and windows media player, but i downloaded this file:

tna.impact.04.26.07.dsrip.xvid-w4f.r00


i've tried both the players i mentioned before, as well as downloaded a divX player that didn't work either. so, i have 2 questions

- what program would i need to run this on my computer?
- using nero software, will i just be able to burn this to dvd?

thanks heaps!

[jagabo]

It's one part of a WinRAR archive. Do you have the other parts and have you unpacked what's in the archive?

[nobbyiscool]

have i unpacked it?

all i have are a series of files like this. most of them have R01, R02, R03 through to R23. then there is a RAR file. and then there is an SFV file

[guns1inger]

Download winrar and install it. Double-click the file ending in .rar, and winrar will open and show you the content. If it is a video, it will probably be a single file. Click the extract button and choose a location to save it to. From there you can play it, burn it, convert it. . . . . if you have all the pieces.

[Bjs]

Zipgenius handles that problem , and many others ... freeware

http://www.zipgenius.it/eng/index.php

[jman98]

I should warn you that the odds are high that your RAR archive will be corrupted. If you don't have any PAR files to go along with this and whatever you use to unarchive it tells you that there are errors (there often are errors with RAR archives), you are screwed. There is nothing you can do and it either won't convert to DVD or it will convert but will stop playing at the point of the error. PAR files are error recovery files and rare is the RAR archive that doesn't need them. I'd advise using QuickPAR which is free and very easy to use.

[nobbyiscool]

well, an update- zipgenius didn't work. i downloaded it, but it wouldn't open an rar file!

i'll try winrar...

[guns1inger]

@jman98 : in over fifteen years I have never used (or seen) par files, and never needed them.

[redwudz]

I always thought .rar and .par files were something left over from the dial-up days when modems were 300 baud.

Chopping up a gigabyte plus file into tiny pieces is asking for trouble, IMO. I realize many don't have fast internet service, but if it takes you a week to download a file, there will likely be errors in it. I guess for myself, I don't see the need for that type of 'slice and dice' system. JMO

[guns1inger]

@Redz : You are right, just like the need to compress to certain pre-determined sizes such as 350 and 700 MB is a throw back to the dark days. But as they say, old habits die hard.

[jagabo]

Split and PAR files are useful when you have unreliable transfers (missing and/or corrupt parts) -- like when using binary newsgroups.

[nobbyiscool]

thanks heaps for the help peeps. on this and another website, i was recommended 5 different programs. apparently the simplest, winRAR, was the last one that i tried- and it worked. it unpacked all 20 files into one normal mpeg file.

thanks!