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I downloaded a torrent and unRARed it, and wound up with five files, all beginning with the name of the movie but with the following endings:

l00, l01, l02, l03, l04, MDS

I duplicated the first one and added .avi to the end, VLC opened and played it but it only lasted about twenty seconds (it is 1GB in size, so it should have been much longer).

Is there any way to make these files playable? There is an .srt subtitle file as well, which I got from another source.

I think these files are a disk image, much like a split up .dmg file. They are probably 1GB in size each. This is because FAT32 (used on Windows 98 amogst other things) filing system cannot handle huge files. Whenever I used a piece of software called Instant CD/DVD to copy a DVD, it would create these files. This software is PC only. I know there are many apps out there for the pc that can extract the files out of the image. UltraISO may be able to do this.

I think these files are a disk image, much like a split up .dmg file. They are probably 1GB in size each. This is because FAT32 (used on Windows 98 amogst other things) filing system cannot handle huge files. Whenever I used a piece of software called Instant CD/DVD to copy a DVD, it would create these files. This software is PC only. I know there are many apps out there for the pc that can extract the files out of the image. UltraISO may be able to do this.

Is UltraISO PC-only? I didn´t see a listing for at Versiontracker.com (the Mac OS X section).

yeah i've the same problem, so did ultra iso worked ?

You can try using magiciso to open mds file. it also is a good iso creator.
http://www.magiciso.com/tutorials/miso-overview.htm

You also can try using magiciso to open mds file.
http://www.magiciso.com/

Hmmm, isn't this PC-only?

I had success with the following:

I used MacPar first to verify and join the segments- this gave me the *.l00, *.l01 etc files you mentioned. I added .iso before the suffix. For example, the files were, say, title.l00, title.l01 and I changed them to title.iso.l00, title.iso.l01.

I then used Split & Concat to join the pieces. The result: a perfect ISO image.

It was, of course, luck that the original file was an ISO. I guess one would have to try several extensions to make it work if the file were not an ISO. I had originally tried to join the segments with Split & Concat- and that program did indeed join them and not report any errors, but the result was a file without an extension. I tried adding .iso and other extensions but that failed to fix the problem (I tried mounting the result as a disk or burning as an image with no luck).... Then, in reading the help docs of Split & Concat, it mentioned that there had to be the original file's suffix preceeding the final numerical suffixes on the segments. So I just tried adding the .iso and it worked.

Perhaps this will work for me and others in the future...

Thanks for the help! I had 2 files
whatever.l00 - 4 gb
whatever.l01 - 214.3 mb

I used Split & Concat to make whatever.iso and it opened perfectly in the Finder and played in DVD Player.