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How do you Burn to DVD, when they are all RARs?

Posted: Tue Aug 30, 2011 5:08 am
by simonmlewis
I have a ripped DVD that I want to put back onto DVD.
But whereas the DVD is just 5 or 6 files, mostly .db files, this rip is about 80 .rar files, with .iso files inside them.

Are these two totally different formats? Do I just born the Rars to DVd and be done with it, or do I need to use some special software to burn then, which will unzip them at the same time?

Re: How do you Burn to DVD, when they are all RARs?

Posted: Tue Aug 30, 2011 11:04 am
by Doug G
rar is a proprietary compression format. You'll need to get a program that can 'un-rar' them. There is an extrator available for linux and windows, It sounds like you should unpack the files and burn the unpacked iso, not the rar files thmeseles. Or un-rar them and re-zip them using zip.

Re: How do you Burn to DVD, when they are all RARs?

Posted: Tue Aug 30, 2011 11:07 am
by simonmlewis
Mmmmm not sure I fancing unpacking about 30 rar files.
I'll probably pass.

Re: How do you Burn to DVD, when they are all RARs?

Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2011 6:51 am
by Weirdan
Most likely what you have is multi-volume rar archive (they are usually called .r01, .r02, etc, or .part1.rar, .part2.rar,...). Unpacking them would produce a single iso file that you could burn.

Re: How do you Burn to DVD, when they are all RARs?

Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2011 6:55 am
by simonmlewis
If I unzipped all files, within which I can see those 'iso' files, how would Windows convert them into ONE ISO ??

Re: How do you Burn to DVD, when they are all RARs?

Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2011 7:16 am
by Weirdan
windows won't, rar (WinRAR, unrar) would.