How to view movies without unraring them.

I've stumbled upon a few RARed releases Dzioba's player couldn't open (mplayer crashed, etc.), even if they were in store mode, but for the most part it's a pretty effective solution.

It'd be nice if MPC-HC supported archives so that I don't have to install two media players, although it's not a huge problem either.

i think it would use the temp storage to extract

Dziobas Rar Player works ok when the rar set starts r01 but no luck when the rar set stats r00 unless i have an corrupt set

Good post!

Thanks a lot for sharing.

Good to know, thanks!

Thanks for this.

thanks

Thanks!

If I remember correctly, NZBPlayer can play movies as it downloads them from usenet, pretty cool stuff:

http://www.nzbplayer.com/

I simply use VLC player, right click and play the .rar file.

I've been using NZBPlayer for quite sometime and agree it's a pretty useful tool.

These days I use mplayer to watch videos inside RAR archives.

Code:

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"%programfiles%\7-zip\7z.exe" x -pPASSWORDHERE -so "y:\somerar.rar" "video.mp4" | "%programfiles%\SMPlayer\MPlayer-x86_64-r36541+g43f9255\mplayer.exe" -vo direct3d -ao dsound -sub "y:\subtitle.srt" -really-quiet -subcp cp1252 -nomouseinput -noass -fontconfig -font Arial -subfont-autoscale 2 -subfont-text-scale 5 -subpos 100 -dr -noslices -

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Perfect! Saves me the time to unrar and delete before watching a movie. Great tip!

Thanks good tip!

never heard of this and spent soooooooo much time unraring files, great post and thx forn the share

I have played rar files in vlc on linux with no dent in the cpu % for ~ 10 years now. This should be mentioned in the first post.

Whoa didn't know this was possible! Have to check it out.

The given URL is not working, Can you please update it.

Thanks much.

Will you explain how to use a file with a alphanumeric name and a no extension or an extension with ??? Thanks again.

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Originally Posted by anon

These days I use mplayer to watch videos inside RAR archives.

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And these days I use MPC-BC with RARFileSource to load RARs like they're just another video format, it's pretty comfy :turned:

Thanks ;)

Will save a lot of time !

Best solution, can you also tell how to convert a MKV file to MP4 ?

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Originally Posted by mehak_sharma

how to convert a MKV file to MP4 ?

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Both of those are container formats, so in principle you can just remux the streams inside.