how do you get a rar file to play if it has been compressed?

Question

says somthing about codec. its a video that i wanna play.

Answer 1

.RAR is a compression/archival format similar to ZIP. Use www.7zip.org (freeware zip/rar/etc. tool) to extract the contents of this RAR file so you can access the contents you want to play.

Answer 2

RAR records are compressed records. that's amazingly resembling zip records. Google Winrar and get carry of the employing. Use this to extract the rar record that you've. interior that rar record, you need to make certain the actual contents of the records.

Answer 3

RAR is the native format of WinRAR archiver. Like other archives, RAR files are data containers, they store one or several files in the compressed form. After you downloaded RAR file from Internet, you need to unpack its contents in order to use it.

WinRAR provides the complete support for RAR files, so you may both create and unpack them. If you installed WinRAR on your computer and downloaded RAR file from Internet, you may double click on RAR file icon to open it in WinRAR, select all files, press "Extract To" button, enter a destination path and press "OK". Another way is to click on the RAR file in Explorer using the right mouse button. If you enabled "Shell integration" option when installing WinRAR, the file context menu will contain "Extract to ..." item.

Some RAR files can be parts of multi-volume sequences. In WinRAR you can split a huge archive to a few smaller files, which are called volumes. They may have extensions .rar (the first volume), .r00, .r01, ..., or .part1.rar (the first volume), .part2.rar, ..., etc. If you need to unpack volumes, place all them to the same folder and start extraction from the first volume.

Check this:
http://www.rarlab.com/download.htm

Answer 4

get Winrar, decompress it. Play it.

Answer 5

you need a player that plays such files.

converting won't help

Answer 6

UN compress it.