Thread: Why do people rar videos?

>> Files that get RARed and yet don't benefit from it.
I always put an extra r in ther. Rarred. Feels righter.
Lets be honest. If we're going to start talking about things people do with no forseable benefit we'll be here all night. It's probably a tradition that they have followed over time because others have done it. Low percentages compression isn't going to make much difference, I think we can agree, to people's bandwidth. Especially if the video is already in a compressed state.

Vart makes a good point about scanning before downloading and passwords.

Originally Posted by abachler

Originally Posted by mike_g View Post
Err.. No-one here said that Zip was better than RAR
and out of 2 paragraphs of post, that is the one sentence you picked up on...

I hate to nitpick, but you are completely wrong. Since this thread seems to be for inane arguments lets prove my point by looking at the original post:

Originally Posted by abachler

RAR is much better than ZIP. ZIP is very poor compression for one, and it lacks a lot of other features that RAR has. RAR has been around for ~15 years so its not like its some new standard. RAR can handle error correction, volume splitting, opens more file types, has a lot of backup features, and is just as free as winzip. Another nice feature of RAR is you can create recovery volumes AFTER the fact.

I haven't seen you give one reason why ZIP is better than RAR.

As far as RARing video's, RAR can compress an MPEG4 by an additional 10% on average. may not seem like much to you, but it means a lot to the guy paying the bill for the website that is hosting the files.

First notice how there are three paragraphs, assuming like most people we are using a blank line as the delimiter.
Next notice how the contents of the first two paragraphs are a comparison between zip and rar.
It should be safe to say that around 60% of the post was mindless, unprovoked, zip bashing.

Do I win something?

Originally Posted by mike_g

Do I win something?

3 NULL pointers and a deprecated API function

Yarly I admit that I am guilty of unpovoked zip bashing. The remainder of the post stands though.

Originally Posted by mike_g

I hate to nitpick, but you are completely wrong. Since this thread seems to be for inane arguments lets prove my point by looking at the original post:

First notice how there are three paragraphs, assuming like most people we are using a blank line as the delimiter.
Next notice how the contents of the first two paragraphs are a comparison between zip and rar.
It should be safe to say that around 60% of the post was mindless, unprovoked, zip bashing.

Do I win something?

I don't get it.

Oh right I get it. hahaha that's good.