Note on Rar:ed Movies
I found an application yesterday for Mac that was supposed to enable VLC to play rar:ed files. (vlcrarloader.
This didn’t work at all. When I tried it VLC crashed. So much for that…
Now, since I really wanted to watch the film I had and I really wanted to find a solution which would enable me to play it in VLC i goggled around a bit without luck. Then I thought to myself, why is the file rar:ed in the first place? I do realise that there is an upside to rar:ing it but once it’s safely on my computer it shouldn’t matter unless it explodes size wise when unpacked.
I decided to unpack and give it a try. I’d read on several forums that unpacking large files would take forever. It took me about 30 seconds to unrar 1.5GB, thank you XPS 
The file size once unpacked was identical to the original one (actually it was a tad smaller because I removed a couple of extra files that wasn’t needed) and I was left with a neat .mkv just waiting for VLC to play it.
By spending 30 seconds unraring the file my problem was solved. KIS!
