Video file?

neocon · 29 Sep 2006 at 22:41

I downloaded a video of a popular animation.

In my download folder I found another folder containing 13 xvid .rar files.

What am I supposed to do with them?
Why is it split up like this?

Thanks

ns400r · 29 Sep 2006 at 22:45

You use Winrar to extract the film. Smaller files allow slower modem users to down load the film abit at a time and also allow the original uploader to replace any corrupt parts of the film in smaller bits.

marc_howarth · 29 Sep 2006 at 22:50

I would also reccomend using http://www.7-zip.org/ as this is free and works brilliantly

neocon · 29 Sep 2006 at 22:52

I was just about to ask, which rar app? :-)

neocon · 29 Sep 2006 at 22:56

Failed! File is broken. Lame.

neocon · 29 Sep 2006 at 23:03

I'm not very impressed with this.

It's a 20min cartoon.

OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH... Now I see. Some have 1 file, others have 11-13 files.

I should have chosen the one with 1 file.

ns400r · 29 Sep 2006 at 23:27

No, using the information when it fails to extract, just down load the 1 SMALLER file you need. That's the point of the 13 or so files.

neocon · 29 Sep 2006 at 23:45

Yeah I understand, but i'll avoid them in future.

bledd · 30 Sep 2006 at 02:10

people do this because its better for uploading them to websites

uploading lots of small files is a lot less of a time risk (if it fails) compared to one massive file

Day03 · 30 Sep 2006 at 09:38

are all the files numbered from 1 to 13? are there any missing? check from where you have downloaded that there are not suppose to be more files. Where did you download them from? if it's newsgroups then you might need to get the PAR files to fix them. Ans use WinRAR to extract the RAR files.

Energize · 30 Sep 2006 at 16:45

I assume you downloaded this from bittorrent? In that case always download videos that are 1 file only, not loads of rar ones. God knows why people do it because it doesn't compress the files and takes about 5 mins extracting it.

wesley · 30 Sep 2006 at 17:10

cartoon pr0n?