Compress to multiple volume RAR
February 25th, 2007 toydi Posted in Archive, rar | Hits: 24571 |
To compress a big video file, movie.avi and split it into multiple files, each size up to 12MB,
rar a -m5 -v12m myarchive movie.avi
A list of files (myarchive.part1.rar, myarchive.part2.rar, ..) will be created in current directory.
You may change the compression quality, -m5 is the best and the slowest, while -m0 do no compression at all (-m3 is default).
If you prefer the old file naming style (myarchive.rar, myarchive.r00, myarchive.r01, ..), add one extra switch -vn before the archive name.
To uncompress the files (myarchive.part1.rar, myarchive.part2.rar, ..),
rar e myarchive.part1.rar
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April 7th, 2007 at 12:06 pm
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May 12th, 2007 at 2:54 am
This helped me out of a bind. Thanks a ton!
August 15th, 2008 at 8:53 pm
Thanks a lot. That was exactly what I was looking for.
May 12th, 2009 at 12:47 pm
I would like to know if it possible to test the compression ratio of a rar and the actual cmd line to do so?
The output I would like would show % of compression and mode of compression m0-m5e
Thank you very much!
I have been searching how to do this.
May 13th, 2009 at 12:26 pm
I have since learned how. Thank you:
rar v test.r00
and/or
rar vt test.r00