Winrar question

[hydrant29]

Using winrar to decode a downloaded vid, is there any way to "preview" the vid with just the first few rars? A while back, someone had posted a way to configure winrar to do just that, or so I thought!!!Any help would be appreciated. Thank you.

[sean madison]

yes there is a way and as far as i know only this way will work but the rars MUST BE compressed this way-

Whoever rarred the video up had to choose the "store" compression option. Any other option will NOT work.
This is how you do it-

If you dl-ed a Tar or a Rar that has rars in it, just rename the .tar extension file to the extension file that the video is in- usually mpg or avi.

If you dl-ed rars individually, open winrar and choose "store" compression and rar up all the rars to 1 rar file then change the extension file to what the video extension is suppose to be.

NOTE- if it is mpg, it will play fine if the rars were using store compression
If it is an avi, open in Virtual Dub or use DivFix then open in Windows Media Player

[banjazzer]

You can do this if you have the first, (or first few) rars. Unrar, but choose the option *keep broken files*. If it is an mpeg, you should be able to play the file straightaway. If it is a DivX you need a utility called DivFix which will let you rebuild the index.