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Play video files from incomplete RAR archives with Dziobas RAR Player
Dziobas RAR Player is a media player with a couple of nice features, but one that stands out in particular: the ability to play an incomplete RAR file. With videos that have been compressed as RAR files, you usually have to wait until the entire archive is downloaded before you can uncompress the file for playback. With Dziobas RAR player, you can view any portion of the RAR file you've downloaded without having to wait for the rest. This can be helpful in a few ways:
- You can make sure that the RAR file is actually what it claims to be
- You can make sure that you have the proper codecs on your system to playback the file
- You can watch the video while the rest downloads; if you time it right, you can watch the RAR file all the way through without ever having to uncompress it.
Dziobas RAR player also supports subtitles, has a thumbnail generator, and more. The free program is Windows only.
[via Sizlopedia]
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Subscribe to commentsBufsabreApr 7th 2008 4:19PM
PRAISE JEEBUS!!!!
bout time someone made this, the only problem is its windows. i despise releases that are just 50 rars cause then i have to unrar to watch and keep those 50 rars to seed
AdamApr 7th 2008 4:25PM
This is a great idea for an app. I have always wanted something like this, hope someone mimics it for the Mac OS
AndrewApr 7th 2008 4:35PM
Fantastic!! I assumed that because this didn't exist it wasn't possible to do.. Awesome job.
joaopccApr 7th 2008 5:46PM
NOD32 says is-OKEOL.tmp from the install is a virus.
Benoit RainvilleApr 7th 2008 6:03PM
It's got a trojan!
CDRUDYApr 7th 2008 8:13PM
Ask and ye shall receive:
http://vlcrarloader.jjabba.com/
And since VLC is 100x better then any other media player out there, it's win/win.
alienvenomApr 8th 2008 10:55AM
I don't know about OSX, but in Linux and Windows VLC can pretty much play RAR files out of the box -- no need for a special 3rd party utility to assist.
MikeApr 8th 2008 5:34AM
As CDRUDY posted, this functionality is already available for all platforms and has been for at least two years!! It's unfortunate that the Winblows fanboys who run this blog rarely recognise programs unless they run on Windows only. When something runs only on Macs, they write "unfortunately this is only available for Macs".
Not only is this not news, but what happened to the "unfortunately"?
CDRUDYApr 8th 2008 11:11AM
Maybe someone can second me on this, but doesn't VLC out of the box play only non-segmented rar files?
EsenteApr 10th 2008 12:03AM
[quote=CDRUDY]And since VLC is 100x better then any other media player out there, it's win/win.[/quote]
Let wait and see video with styled subtitle (such as ASS), and you will think that VLC is the worst player ever (among the line that can play video without installed codecs).
fcsp01Apr 17th 2008 9:45AM
anyone knows SW that permit to save the content of an incomplete RAR file (i.e. there are two RAR parts and i have only one of them) ?
Thanks in advance