Movie in a .rar file 99.9% complete, is there a way to extract it?

[dexter30]

I downloaded a movie from a torrent site, the damn thing stopped at 99.9% (4MB left)
and it´s been trying to complete for over four days without success.

If it was a .VOB file I could burn it onto a disc just the same with none or little video problems.

The thing is it´s divided in 95 .rar files and if I try to extract them I get a
"bad block/crc error" because of the uncomplete file.

Is there a way to fix the file so I could extract it partially?

Thanks in advance.

[aedipuss]

either find par files to repair it or maybe the creator was kind enough to include recovery overhead in the rars. try highlighting the bad rar and clicking repair in the winrar menu. treat as rar. good luck as not many people use this nice feature.

p.s. you can extract the archive with the error if it doesn't work by checking "save broken files" in the menu.

[darkknight145]

it could also be a fake file and will never complete.
have you checked the peers for the file, is anyone at 100%

[jagabo]

WinRar has an option to keep corrupt or incomplete files when extracting.

[hech54]

Wow...another first time poster teetering on the edge of illegal activity on a web site called videohelp.com....Hmmm.

[dexter30]

Wow...another first time poster teetering on the edge of illegal activity on a web site called videohelp.com....Hmmm.

And you are probably a hypocritical massive downloader like 95% of the net users,
judging people you don´t even know.

Has it ever ocurred to you that there are Indian art movies on the web
free for download?

[SatStorm]

There are plenty free movies on the net.
Star Wreck from Finland is a very popular example.

[hech54]

Wow...another first time poster teetering on the edge of illegal activity on a web site called videohelp.com....Hmmm.

And you are probably a hypocritical massive downloader like 95% of the net users

As a matter of fact....WRONG.
Care to take a wild guess at my weight this time?
How about my age?
Do I win another stuffed animal if you are wrong again?

[SatStorm]

Calm down.

[dexter30]

Dear friends,

I managed to solve the problem by following your instructions, installing WinRAR and ticking the box Keep broken files. Experienced minimal choppy playback here and there due to the missing 4MB but nothing that could ruin the video.

Thanks a lot for your help guys.

[jagabo]

You're welcome.

[AlanHK]

Experienced minimal choppy playback here and there due to the missing 4MB but nothing that could ruin the video.

There are a bunch of apps that might fix that:
https://www.videohelp.com/tools/sections/video-repair-fix

[Baldrick]

I have removed some posts. Please use the feedback forum to discuss rules.

[Muad_Dib]

Wow...another first time poster teetering on the edge of illegal activity on a web site called videohelp.com....Hmmm.

Wow, another posthunter teetering on the brink of breaking the rules, trolling obnoxiously on a forum called videohelp. Hmmm...

Now back to the topic...

You are probably out of luck, dexter30; although you failed to disclose any more facts about the file inside the archive (how large is it?), it seems that nothing will help help you - only getting the missing parts.

Recovery blocks, though frequently present in archives, will probably not help you. Even though the recovery blocks can be as large 2^19 "sectors" (=2^9 B; i.e. 256 MiB in total), the options normally used are expressed in % ot the size. And while it can be specified on the command line, the Windows GUI version only allows setting it up to 10 %. Given the size of (unknown to me) the RAR chunks (volume) and the size of the torrent chunks (at least 32 KiB), the recovery record should be at least as large as the missing (damaged) part in order for the recovery of that volume to be theoretically possible.

But if you encounter an irrepairable volume somewhere "in the middle of" an archived file, then the rest of the file will be unrecoverable.

The solution is either to look for possible REV (RAR recovery volumes, which can replace entire RAR archive volumes), or, as suggested above, PAR (parity volume set archive) files. Both are similar in their function, both are probably similar in availability - which I estimate as very poor.

Nevertheless, you can search for the same torrent elsewhere, or contact the uploader. Otherwise... you are stuck.