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Hi there,

I have trouble playing a video I found on the Rapidshare. It was split up into 36 rar files so I downloaded them using Cryptload 1.1.8. Then I extracted all the files using 7 zip and I had no problem doing it. Then I tried to play the single video file using VLC media player 1.1.11, but there was a problem. The video seemed a little bit scrambled, sometimes the image would stop and the sound would keep playing. Simply put, the resolution was just bad. Then, I tried playing the video using DivX Plus Player and it worked better, but there were still some instances where the image would stop a little. Still, I had better resolution with DivX Plus Player. Is there some way that I can improve the video quality, especially with VLC media player? I tried extracting the video again from the multiple rar files one more time with Win rar , but it basically gave the same result. Can someone help?

Thanks.

R4R4R4R4
I suggest that you should find another source to download.
Or I heard about that there is a software could deal with the problem, but I can't remember the name.
Hope there are someone to answer.

Sounds like the video file isn't encoded very well (shouldn't have anything to do with it being in a RAR file - it's a lossless compression algorithm).

You could give a nightly build of VLC 2.0 a go:
http://nightlies.videolan.org/

It might be able to handle lost frames etc. better.

Arite.

2.0.0 was broken for RAR. 2.0.1 should fix it.