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Dolby

Dolby

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I have a movie that's about 20 x files of 100MB each listed as .RO1, .R02. R03 etc and the last an RAR file.

I remember RAR was a compression file like zip or something - but what are the rest and how do I make it ONE file of MKV or something that I can see?
 
I use 7zip - so just right-click the file with the .rar extension and select 'Extract here' and it'll automatically extract the video from all the other files.
 
Dolby said:
I have a movie that's about 20 x files of 100MB each listed as .RO1, .R02. R03 etc and the last an RAR file.

I remember RAR was a compression file like zip or something - but what are the rest and how do I make it ONE file of MKV or something that I can see?
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Hey Dolby... Seen this before... Usually the R01/02/03 files are linked to the RAR file. If you open the RAR file it should uncompress the data in all the linked files and create one mkv or mpg file. Give it a shot and see what happens.
 
Thanks - got it ... didn't realise they were linked!
 
Man, you really are new at this 'puter stuff aren't you :D
 
New?

RAR is like from the 90's ... I thought it died away and I erased from memory ;)
 
The last time I checked into a hotel I said to the receptionist: "I hope the porn channel in my room is disabled." She said: "No, it's regular porn you sick bastard."
 
this takes me back to the days of arj when we had to break the files up to span across multiple stiffy disks. I think I did this to move around Morkal Kombat from pc to pc.

FUN!
 
S1ght said:
Just a nice way to break up a file to help thread downloads ;)
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Originally developed for floppy disks. Small chunks to split big archives across multiple disks.
 
why are they usually 14mb or something like that, for interests sake?
 
Keeper said:
why are they usually 14mb or something like that, for interests sake?
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It's a standard. 14MB, 50MB, 100MB. Basically split so you can grab them easily, as well as only replacing individual bits if one doesn't download properly.
 
Keeper said:
why are they usually 14mb or something like that, for interests sake?
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The size is based on scene rules.
Packaging:
- Releases must be packed in RAR file format.
- Rars may be in 15, 20, or multiples of 50 MB. 15 and 20 MB sizes must
contain 1-101 files. Multiples of 50 MB must contain 10-101 files.
1MB 1,000,000 bytes.
- Multi-episode releases with no clear delineation such as credits must
not be split
- RAR compression must not be used
- Recovery and MD5 record are optional
- Encryption or password protection is forbidden
- Must have SFV and NFO
- RAR, SFV, and sample files must have unique, lowercase filenames with
the group tag.
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http://scenenotice.org/details.php?id=2029
 
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