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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