Stream video from rar files!

Rich43 · 14 Mar 2009 at 15:26

I made a little bash script to stream video from rar, works with a split rar archive I tested!

http://files.pynguins.com/users/richie/rarplay.tar.gz
Mirror: http://ifile.it/6qudgh0

You should extract it to the bin folder in your home directory (create it if it does not exist).

Install mplayer and unrar packages.

and then open a terminal and cd to the directory of your video and run like:

Code:

rarplay hancock.rar

yashiro · 14 Mar 2009 at 16:51

How many people rar up their movies though?

amkan13 · 14 Mar 2009 at 16:56

most come packaged in rars when obtained from dubious sources

zzzJonny · 14 Mar 2009 at 17:11

Neat, but I don't know how many people would leave them archived.

masterluke · 15 Mar 2009 at 08:11

nice work - i would have nothing against leaving movies in RAR formats IF it would save me space. However if i understand correctly, movies are usually already highly compressed and so they shrink very little when compressed again.
I would imagine the space saved would be negligible

Rich43 · 15 Mar 2009 at 13:52

amkan13 said:
most come packaged in rars when obtained from dubious sources

True, but I am trying to keep that and this thread separate for obvious reasons.