Creating rar files that vlc can read

[occamrazor]

I'm trying to create a rar archive that vlc can play, but have no luck. VLC can play the source file and the un-rar'ed file, but not the archive. Is there a special flag I'm missing to create a rar that vlc can read?

Thanks.

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0 fatty:0.0 tmp/tdf % rar a -v10M -m0 llama tpft.mp4 <creates rar file> 0 fatty:0.0 tmp/tdf % ll total 51964K drwxr-xr-x 2 occamrazor occamrazor 4096 Jul 6 13:29 ./ drwx------ 287 occamrazor occamrazor 61440 Jul 6 13:27 ../ -rw-r--r-- 1 occamrazor occamrazor 10000000 Jul 6 13:29 llama.part1.rar -rw-r--r-- 1 occamrazor occamrazor 10000000 Jul 6 13:29 llama.part2.rar -rw-r--r-- 1 occamrazor occamrazor 6566278 Jul 6 13:29 llama.part3.rar -rw-r--r-- 1 occamrazor occamrazor 26565764 Jul 5 21:52 tpft.mp4 0 fatty:0.0 tmp/tdf % file llama.part* tpft.mp4 llama.part1.rar: RAR archive data, v8c, llama.part2.rar: RAR archive data, vd5, flags: Archive volume, Commented, Locked, Authenticated, llama.part3.rar: RAR archive data, vd5, flags: Commented, Locked, Solid, tpft.mp4: ISO Media, MP4 v2 [ISO 14496-14] 0 fatty:0.0 tmp/tdf % vlc -v llama.part1.rar VLC media player 2.2.6 Umbrella (revision 2.2.6-0-g1aae78981c) [00007f8e8df6c148] core libvlc: Running vlc with the default interface. Use 'cvlc' to use vlc without interface. [00007f8e8e050ed8] qt4 interface error: Unable to load extensions module [00007f8e58c01778] ps demux warning: this does not look like an MPEG PS stream, continuing anyway [00007f8e58c01778] ps demux warning: garbage at input, trying to resync... [00007f8e58c01778] ps demux warning: found sync code [00007f8e58c01778] ps demux warning: garbage at input, trying to resync...

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VLC media player 2.2.6 Umbrella (revision 2.2.6-0-g1aae78981c) RAR 5.50 beta 4