On Wed, 2005-11-23 at 18:49 +0100, oliver wrote:
> First of all, because rar's are 'saver' to transport over Internet 
> streams then plain avi's. You have smaller parts and they are with 
> recovery options.

Seems to me that splitting the file and using par2 for error recovery
would be better.  But I suppose if you want to distribute multiple files
one might use rar.  I'd prefer a tarball, but maybe tar is less
available on Windows.

> Secondly, If I download a rar via bit torrent for example, I might want 
> to keep seeding those rar files. Thus I want to keep the rar files much 
> longer then that 2 hrs I'm watching it.

Fair enough.  Although, why split the movie up into rar parts if
bittorrent is the transport medium?  I can see it on Usenet, but why
bittorrent?

Jason.

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