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    Converting 7zip files to playable video?

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by speedsterdm, Mar 11, 2007.

  1. speedsterdm

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    Hello all:

    I was wondering if there is any software available to convert 7zip files into a playable video format? Is there something I am doing wrong here? I can't seem to get it to work. I had a bunch of files and I archived them using 7-zip and thought that I would just be able to play that but I need to change the format somehow I think.

    Sorry, I am pretty much a novice at this type of thing. Thanks in advence.
     
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    You need to unarchive them in order to play them.
     
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    But then I just have a bunch of little files again don't I? I want them all together as one file. 7-Zip compressed the files together.
     
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    You can't play them while they're compressed.
     
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    Ok, thank you, so how do I go about uncompressing them? The original files were .r15 files if that helps at all. Thanks for the speedy response!
     
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    Use the same program you used to compress them. Sounds like you compressed RAR compressed files.
     
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    Ok, my options in 7zip are as follows:

    add, extract, test, copy, move, delete, and info

    I'm not seeing an option to uncompress. Sorry for the annoyance, quite embarassing
     
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    extract

    ...
     
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    Using extract runs the program but then it doesn't seem to produce another file as a result. Getting rather frustrated. Thank you very muh for your help, plus rep.
     
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    If it's a RAR archive divided into multiple files, there should be one with a .rar extension, then .r00, .r01, .r02, .r03, etc. If you extract the .rar file, it should automatically extract all of them and reassemble the file.
     
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