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ender2002
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Jul 5, 2003, 09:02 AM
 
i downloaded a movie

it has three separate parts ending in the extension .rar. i can expand it with stuffit expander. the file that i get from expanding the .rar is a .bin. I tried expanding this in stuffit but it doesnt work. i tried viewing in vlc but it almost freezes. any solutions?
     
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Jul 6, 2003, 08:19 PM
 
Originally posted by ender2002:
i downloaded a movie

it has three separate parts ending in the extension .rar. i can expand it with stuffit expander. the file that i get from expanding the .rar is a .bin. I tried expanding this in stuffit but it doesnt work. i tried viewing in vlc but it almost freezes. any solutions?
might need to be burned to a cd with something like 'missing media burner', first
     
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Jul 6, 2003, 08:27 PM
 
Originally posted by ender2002:
i downloaded a movie

it has three separate parts ending in the extension .rar. i can expand it with stuffit expander. the file that i get from expanding the .rar is a .bin. I tried expanding this in stuffit but it doesnt work. i tried viewing in vlc but it almost freezes. any solutions?

With a .bin file there is usually if it is a movie there is a .cue file.

Do you have one?
     
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Jul 6, 2003, 09:29 PM
 
if it has 3 parts it is most likely an SVCD, although it could be a vcd. Use this:

http://macupdate.com/info.php/id/10068

if you dont have the cue file, choose RAW->MPEG. I'm not sure if this will work for svcds, never tried it, but it will work for vcds.
     
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Jul 7, 2003, 12:21 PM
 
u can expand rar w/ unrarx from versiontracker...
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