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Old 09-09-2005, 01:12 PM
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Originally Posted by stony
Hi lcruizer. Aren't .rar files actually files that have been compressed by winrar? I don't believe there are any media players that play compressed .rar files. You'd first have to uncompress them (and join them if they'd been split) which would revert the files into the original media format (.wmv, .avi, rm etc...).

Same thing re: converting the file. To convert a .rar file, you'd first have to uncompress it and recombine it.
Yep, this is all right. A rar file is just like a zip file. the only time it isnt is if someone has been playing around with the file extension.
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