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  1. January 7th, 2006, 11:05 PM #1
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    Tar files!?!?!?!

    ok my movie comes in a tar file than i use winrar and i extract it to some place and all the sudden i have cd1 and cd2.. the cd1 contains like 40 rar files.. sayn like part02 part03.. blah blah.. than the cd2 contains the same thing and the only folder that actually plays a movie is the sample folder.. which plays 10 seconds of the movie.. please help and tell me wha i do with these 40 rar files!
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  2. January 8th, 2006, 07:33 AM #2
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    Every wonder why the word RAR is in WinRAR? Use the program again to extract the contents of the RAR files. Open the first one and extract it toyour desired location, the 40 RAR files are all the same archive, just split up for the downloading.
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  3. January 8th, 2006, 03:33 PM #3
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    ok so extract like part02.rar? one of the 40 things?

    yeah i did that and got cd1.bin

    what the hell is a bin file? now
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  4. January 8th, 2006, 03:35 PM #4
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    It's an image file (A file archive that contains the contents of a CD) You can either burn it to a CD or mount it on a virtual drive.

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  5. January 11th, 2006, 11:33 AM #5
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    A bin/cue file is the typical file that you get when downloading films and/or applications. It's basically an image of the original CD, but in a films case it's simply an image of the AVI/DivX/XviD.
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  6. January 11th, 2006, 11:50 AM #6
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  7. January 11th, 2006, 12:46 PM #7
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  8. January 11th, 2006, 01:56 PM #8
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    Ugh... When I first started getting into downloading of bigger files that really pissed me off. Often times you'd have to go through 3+ conversions to get something useful. This is a prime example. Is there really any benefit to TARing a set of already RARed files?
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  9. January 11th, 2006, 02:20 PM #9
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    If you tar 40 rar files, it's like gluing them together to make one file. Rar does the compression so you don't have to download as much. Yes you could make one giant rar file too but then it wouldn't fit in the newsgroup headers :)
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  10. January 11th, 2006, 04:54 PM #10
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  11. January 11th, 2006, 05:14 PM #11
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    Hey buddy ever looked in the guide section here at ZP? Well no to toot my own horn ,but just finished an updated tutorial on precisely your problem.,.............




    BASIC Video Media Author - VCD, SVCD, and DVD, what they are and how to burn them.


    theres also............



    What are BIN, CUE, and ISO files and what do I do with them?


    Apparently a guide on TAR and RAR cant come soon enough heh Augmeister?
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