How to play RAR files

The first thing to understand is that .rar files are not media files, so you usually can’t play them right away. A RAR file is an archive, such as .zip or .tar, that can contain one or more compressed files. You can “extract” those files from the .rar file and play them on your favorite music / video player.

Extract and play RAR files

The most popular software for extracting RAR files is WinRAR, a shareware application (see the bottom of this article for free alternatives). If you have WinRar installed, you can play .rar files by following these steps:

  1. Right click on the file in question.
  2. Choose “Extract Here”. This will put all the contents of the archive file in the same folder as the .rar file.
  3. Find the created media files (.avi, .mpg, .mp3 or similar) and double click to play.

Special case: partial discharges

Sometimes a video file is divided among many smaller RAR files. If you have all the parts, you can play it as described above, but what if some files are missing or “broken”? You can still play at least part of the video. To preview the video, follow these steps:

  1. Find the first of the .rar files. Depending on the version of WinRAR used to create them, the first file will have “part1” in its name, or it will be the only file with the extension “.rar” (other files will have extensions like “.r01”, “.r02” and so on successively).
  2. Right click on the file and select “Extract Files …”. A dialog box will appear.
  3. Check the checkbox that says “Keep broken files” (it’s in the lower left corner).
  4. Click OK and wait while the files are unzipped. Eventually an error message will appear, click Cancel.
  5. You now have a video file that you can play on any video player that can handle broken files. Windows Media Player cannot always do this; I personally recommend the free VLC media player for this task. You can download it from http://www.videolan.org

Here’s a extra tip – sometimes VLC player can play RAR files right away, without extracting them first. This depends on the video codec and compression algorithm used, so it may not work in certain cases.

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