Play movie files in multi-file .rar archives

[Johan]

If you start extracting a movie in mutliple archives with WinRAR and press the "background" button you can start playing the movie immediatly with VLC.

However what I am after is the possibility to start watching the movie directly after I have started the download, that is as soon as the first archive-part is downloaded. This almost works today with WinRar and VLC, but the problem is that WinRAR prompt for the next archive and requires user input to continue extraction. If there existed a unpacking software that waited paitently for the next archive to download and the continued the extraction all my needs would be satisfied. I have downloaded and installed over 30 different unpackers and none have this feature. I have also requested this feature to the WinRAR developers, but if all you guys request it too they might implement it!

email to: dev@rarlab.com

[Guest]

The ability to play a rar-archive would definately be a nice feature to implement in VLC, Ive wanted such a feature for a long time. Too bad im not a programmer.

[dionoea]

I'll close this topic since people can't read our explanation to why it won't be done. (and can't)