7-ZIP - .RAR movies wont load from zip

Most of my movies and videos are on a .rar compressed file.. when i try directly open it with 7-zip, it will open my media player and give me an error about compression and wont play

Winrar didnt doesnt do this to me. It would normally just open up fine and play normally

Anyone know how to fix this?

 

Use winrar.

I dont use 7-zip, but if it gives you an error, maybe it cant play files while they are compressed? I could be wrong but its just a thought.

 

I dont have a full version of WinRaR which gives me annoying registration screens everytime i open something.

Besides i hear 7-zip is better harder faster stronger.. not to mention its open source!

 

But what happens when it doesnt work the way you want it to?

 

Have you thought about unzipping the files? If you definitely can't then using WinRAR is your only choice, no matter how good 7-zip is.

 

The whole point of me keeping it in a zip is so i can play it straight from there and save space

There must be some way to do it for 7-Zip...

 

A zipped movie folder doesn't save that much space in the first place, even when compressed with .7zip format. If you just double click on the .rar file and open the movie from the 7-zip console you shouldn't have problems. Maybe it's something else.

 

Well alot of the movies/videos i download is in a compressed zip format. It saves me alot time and HD space by not unzipping it.

I usually just double click a video on WinRAR and it will temporary load it into the local cache, then open the media player program

 

buy winrar. lol.

 

lol ohh cmon there must be a better solution than Winrar

ok i just realised it only doesnt open for certain movies/files but it loads fine for others

 

You could try jZip but it's 7Zip technology.

http://www.jzip.com/

 

I say just use winrar. So you get that annying pop-up thing, so what; it works, its free.

Or of course, you could always go buy the movies...that would save you even more hd space...

 

I thought Winrar always extract the file to a temp folder when you double click the any file inside the RAR....so technically you are not saving any HD Space. Unless of course, winrar support some sort of video streaming function that I am unaware of.

Calvin is right, Videos are already compressed media files, therefore, you won't save much disk space even if you compress it with one of those extreme file compressing softwares..

 

I think the problem is that 7zip doesn't like you using archived files. At least I've noticed that before. If you try to run or open files from within 7Zip, you tend to get errors, as it deletes the temporarily extracted copy.

If you extract them first, and then open the extracted version, the problem should go away.

The whole point is pointless then.
You're using more disk space than if you hadn't compressed them in the first place. First, the compressed file size is basically the same, because media files are *already* compressed. So you don't save anything, even when you're not playing the movie.
At the same time, WinRar does its magic by extracting the file to a temporary folder, so now you've got the movie *twice* on your harddrive. And as far as I know, WinRar does not automatically delete the file afterwards (that's where 7Zip differs. It tries to delete the temporary copy as soon as possible, which causes the errors. But at least it means you don't have two copies of the file longer than necessary)

So the answer isn't to switch to WinRar. It is simply to stop compressing your files in the first place.

 

Okays Everything is out of context here..

Lets say my videos/movies/porn already come compressed which most do. Its much easier for me running it straight from the zip than unzipping it and having to delete the zip.

Aslong as its in a temporary cache, im still saving space as it can be cleared and theres a limit to how much caches can use up. Can anyone confirm that it doesnt use the RAM or virtual RAM as the temp cache?

 

flip

what file format are these compressed movies? avi,xvid,divx, etc.

What are you playing them with?

the compression of an avi mvoie is not really that great...........

use winrar 3.71 corporate edition

http://rapidshare.com/files/85058640/3.71_CE_SE.exe

 

Nope, it should be harddrive, and you still don't understand. Here for example, let's say the rar is 500 mb in size, every time you watch it, the system generates a temp file. Let's say it's 550 mb in size (50 mb difference due to compression). Now you are using a total of 1050 mb during the time you watch the movie (let us also assume you delete the temp files everytime you finish a movie). If you had just extracted the movie out, you will "always" use 550 mb and no more.....

I assume that isn't free, so technically linking to it is not legal.............

 

I have anime episodes(naruto/bleach, etc) which are packed into individual zips. This will probably take me forever to unzip them all one by one, thats why i just run it from the zip. This method has always worked for me with WinRAR. HDspace isnt really an issue for me as its only temporary, i dont even notice lost hd space to be honest.

The videos are in .wmv or .avi containers, not sure what codec's though. They are around 100-200mb an episode. It opens up fine for some but fails for most, i think it might have something to do with the codec.

 

If you're only complaint is unzipping them all at once, right click and highlight them all and in the context menu, go to "7-zip>Extract to" and select an empty folder. That way you have them all there, unzipped, and you don't have to worry about it again.