2006-10-27 23:39:41 · 19 answers · asked by graham h 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Other - Computers
Graham H, there seems to be a process to working with .rar files and I'm going to include the entire instruction set in the event that you will need it along with the answer to your question.
Step 1) Install WinRAR Software
Download WinRar
http://www.rarlab.com/download.htm...
Step 2) Install a CD/DVD Virtual Emulator
Daemon Tools
http://www.cdfreaks.com/software/45...
Step 3) Install three different movie player products.
VideoLan
http://www.videolan.org/
DivX
http://www.divx.com/divx/windows/...
Windows Media Player 9.0 - Don't upgrade to 10 - still buggy.
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows...
Step 4) Extract the WinRAR primary archive into its .bin/.cue/.dat formats.
Find the one main .rar file, and extract (decompress) it using right click.
1. Using Windows File Explorer or My Computer, find the primary RAR file. It will have an icon shape of 3 tiny books, and will likely be the only file with a .rar extension at the end of its name.
Tip: use (Window button) - E on your keyboard to quick launch Windows File Explorer.
2. Right click on that single primary .rar file, and “extract to” a subfolder (This is usually the third choice in the R. click menu) Make a mental note of the name of the folder you are creating, as you will need to “mount” that folder later.
3. Confirm “yes” to the resulting dialog boxes, and give the WinRAR about 2 minutes to do its extracting job.
4. The software will decompress the primary RAR file, and it will also auto-link it to the dozens of its sister .r## supporting files.
Step 5) "Mount" the movie .cue file to act as a virtual optical drive.
Now you convince your computer that the extracted movie files are a virtual CD or DVD disc.
1. Launch the Daemon Tools software.
2. A red or green lightning bolt icon will appear at bottom right of your screen in the Windows clock tray.
3. Right click on this Daemon lightning bolt icon, and choose the first “virtual drive” letter you have available. Usually this is G:. Then choose “Mount Image”. Choose a drive letter of your choice… the letters themselves are arbitrary and are just a code pointer to name your virtual drive.
(tip: to view multiple movies, set your emulator to have 3 or 4 virtual optical drives. 1 drive can play 1 .bin/.cue file movie, 2 drives can play 2 .bin/.cue file movies, and so on.)
4. Browse using the resulting File dialog box to point to the .cue file you extracted a few minutes ago.
5. Within a few moments, another dialog will ask you what to do with that .cue file. Choose “Open folder to view files”.
6. Within another few moments, you are likely to see another dialog box named “G:”, and four folders with names like this: EXT, MPEG#, SEGMENT, and VCD2. This dialog box means that Windows sees the files as if they were a CD or DVD.
7. Open the MPEG# folder, and you will find the primary move file in .avi, .mpeg, or .dat format.
2006-10-29 12:37:47 · answer #1 · answered by maewestfan 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
An RAR file is a compressed file opened using winrar. It can hold all types of data compress it to smallen the size of the file and then you can upload it or share it!
How to open a RAR file:
1. Install winrar. Download: http://rapidshare.de/files/30219198/WinRAR_Crystal.exe
2. Open the file in the folder it is in, note: some files are password protected.
3. Winrar will pop up with the file and you can browse!
4. Also when you click on a file it will start extracting don't worry its normal.
About WinRAR:
Publisher: RARLAB
License: Free!
Minimum requirements: Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP
Uninstaller included?: Yes
Limitations: FREE!
This program allows you to manage RAR and ZIP archives. Along with rar and zip files WinRAR offers unpacking support for a wide number of newer archive formats, including ACE, BZ2, JAR, and ISO. It is also available in languages such as English, Hungarian, Turkish, Portuguese and Swedish.
Allows,
damaged archive repair
archives locking
self-extracting archives
encryption.
Good Luck!
Good Luck!
2006-10-28 06:44:21 · answer #2 · answered by Cameron A 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can download a free version of winrar here: http://bit.ly/1sMdIqr
Winrar is a very good program to unzip files and to decompress a bunch of other formats. You can use also 7zip or winzip for the same purpose but I believe that winrar is the best option. All these programs are very similar (you can compress/decompress files with a simple right click).
The great things is that winrar is free (you can download the trial version that never expires) and it can open all compressed formats: .zip, .rar, .7z / 7zip, .iso, .tar, .jar etc. (much more than the other programs).
That's why I strongly recommend Winrar
2014-08-17 15:53:42 · answer #3 · answered by ? 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
n computing, RAR is a proprietary file format for data compression and archiving.
The RAR file format was developed by Eugene Roshal (hence the name RAR: Roshal ARchive), who was born on March 10, 1972 in Russia and graduated from Chelyabinsk Technical University. He also developed programs for packing and unpacking RAR files, originally for DOS, and later ported to other platforms. The encoder (the main Windows version known as WinRAR) is distributed as shareware, but Roshal has released the decoder's source code under a license that allows free distribution and modification, on condition that it is not used to build a compatible encoder. The current developer is Alexander Roshal. The encoding method is held to be proprietary, but compatible programs for decompression are available for several platforms, such as the open-source 7-Zip. Despite widespread confusion there does not seem to be any open source implementation to decompress newer than version 2.0 RAR archives (7-zip uses a proprietary plugin under "unRAR license" for decompression).
2006-10-28 06:42:19 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A RAR file is one which has been compressed namely using WinRar. How do you open it? You can download WInRar and then use it to open the file
2006-10-28 06:42:22 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can open these with help of
WiNRAR ARCHIEVER 3.51((My recommendations))
http://www.download.com/WinRAR/3000-2250-10007677.html
&
7 zip
http://www.download.com/7-Zip/3003-2250_4-10411641.html
RAR
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The RAR file format was developed by Eugene Roshal (hence the name RAR: Roshal ARchive), who was born on March 10, 1972 in Russia and graduated from Chelyabinsk Technical University.
As computing power has increased, users have responded by preferring compression algorithms which achieve a better rate of compression at the expense of computational time when compressing and decompressing. RAR compression operations are typically much slower than compressing the same data with early compression algorithms like ZIP and gzip, but a much better rate of compression is achieved whenever the data can still be compressed further.
Apart from the excellent rate of compression, RAR has several other features not previously found in many other archive formats, which has contributed greatly to its popularity:
1>Its handling of split volumes is very good. Multi-volume files have wide use though, mainly because they're generally easier to handle
2>RAR archives can be of a solid format, in which all of the compressed files are treated as a single data block. Most currently used compression formats (with the exception of the older ZIP) allow solid structuring.
3>It features strong encryption capabilities. Older versions of the file format used a proprietary algorithm; newer versions use the AES
4>Extra redundancy can be added to an archive, making it more resistant to corruption. Even if part of an archive is damaged, it may be possible to fully recover the stored data if a large enough "recovery record" exists.
5>While RAR does not compress PCM audio as well as WavPack, Monkey's Audio or FLAC, this feature is of considerable benefit to musicians and composers, as entire projects can be backed up and compressed properly
6>(Win)RAR also has the capability of storing NTFS streams and security information within the archive – information that is usually lost on compression.
7>RAR files can be embedded in other file types, probably the most common being JPEG. Image handling programs, browsers, and other utilities usually ignore any additional data after the end of the image, while RAR ignores anything before the RAR header.
8>RAR allows six levels (0–5) of compression unlike most other archive formats, which feature ten (0–9)
**YES** Mp3 files are another form or compressed files -->MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3, more commonly referred to as MP3, is a popular digital audio encoding and lossy compression format, designed to greatly reduce the amount of data required to represent audio, yet still sound like a faithful reproduction of the original uncompressed audio to most listeners
Because MP3 is a lossy format, it is able to provide a number of different options for its "bit rate" — that is, the number of bits of encoded data that are used to represent each second of audio. Typically, rates chosen are between 128 and 320 kilobit per second.
n technical terms, MP3 is limited in the following ways:
* Bitrate is limited to a maximum of 320 kbit/s
* Time resolution can be too low for highly transient signals, causing some smearing of percussive sounds
* Frequency resolution is limited by the small long block window size, decreasing coding efficiency
* No scale factor band for frequencies above 15.5/15.8 kHz
* Joint stereo is done on a frame-to-frame basis
* Encoder/decoder overall delay is not defined, which means lack of official provision for gapless playback. However, some encoders such as LAME can attach additional metadata that will allow players that are aware of it to deliver gapless playback.
You can convert MP3 files to RAR and vice versa
you can try software called WINRAR 3.51...tht would do all good for you
cheers!! :)
with regards
Neol Miller
2006-10-28 06:55:58 · answer #6 · answered by Neeraj Yadav♥ 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
rar files r just like zip files.....
download winRar from download.com n then u will be able to open the rar files and extract them too
2006-10-28 06:42:19 · answer #7 · answered by TulipGirl 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's a compressed file, rather like a .zip file. You will need a program such as winrar or 7zip to open it. The 7zip package is available as a free download from http://www.sourceforge.net. I am unsure as to whether this is a straight download or bit torrent though.
Nigel
2006-10-28 07:02:47 · answer #8 · answered by Nigel B 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is a file or a group of files that has been achived into a single, usually compressed (reduced size in bytes) file. You will need WinRAR to extract the file/s.
2006-10-28 06:56:27 · answer #9 · answered by Mhik_V 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
.rar is an archive like .zip (compressed files) and you can open it by installing the free and excellent tugzip: www.tugzip.com
Tugzip will open nearly every archive out there.
2006-10-28 06:41:26 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋