Avi Vs Rar

[AnneJay]

Say you ran a small server with a couple of 2 hour home movies (in avi format) from your recent European vacation.  Your friends and family all had speedy connections so there was no reason for you to accommodate 56K users (sorry dial-up folks), would you need to split the movie into several little RAR files. 

I really don't see how this could possibly improve the speed of the download (a mb is a mb afterall) so why do it?  Why not just leave the flicks in AVI format so the end users can just watch them as is, and needn't worry about missing or corrupt RARs?

I've noticed the RAR method of distribution with other personal holiday video FTPs and wondered if it the best way to upload them to interested parties.

[Homie]

Problem is, that you might get a corrupt AVI-file. If this happends you'll have to download the whole AVI again. If you rar it up, you only need to download the one corrupt rar-file, all others would work

Homie

[roadworker]

As Homie said........but don't forget to add a .sfv file,so if there's a corrupt rar file,you can detect which 1....

[belthazor]

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a mb is a mb afterall<hr size="1" /></blockquote><span class='postcolor'>

Don't forget if it's rar'd it'll be compressed and smaller (in mb's) and save some time and bandwidth.

[AnneJay]

@source, @roadworker & @ Homie:

Thank you for the helpful information.&nbsp; That of course answers the why, now just have to find out how.&nbsp; Oh well, no one said this was going to be easy.&nbsp;

[Dudelive]

It is not that hard, first of all install winrar. Then right click the file on your computer where you have saved it and choose "Add to archive" on that screen that opens up you will see several options and just play with a test file to see which ones you need to use.

[MaxPayne]

And inside the rar they have the ability to include nfo's, diz's and read_me's too. A neater package in another word.