Good Evening!

[Aries205]

hello. I'm new to the forum and the converting videos to mpeg4 format so please excuse my ignorance ... i have just 1 question....


I DL 2 movies this morning and now trying to convert into mpeg4 to transfer to my ipod touch screen. the format that movies are is called winrar. and the converter is not picking those 2 files up..

No problem with picking up movies from desk top screen.. because i have them located in the my videos file.. there is no problem with picking up WVI(not sure if that's the correct sp) and AVI format type of movies..

please.

[tashabear]

WinRAR is a compression format, like .zip -- you need to expand and save the expanded versions, and then convert.

[Aries205]

Originally Posted by tashabear

WinRAR is a compression format, like .zip -- you need to expand and save the expanded versions, and then convert.

thanks for the fast response.. but...

what do you mean by expanding the file? how would i go by doing that?

[cessna1466u]

From wha I have read, it looks like you need to buy a third party program to de-compress a .rar file. Here is a link to were I read it. It also has a shortcut to a prgram you can use but is only a trial version. This is what I read and maybe someone else knows something different.

http://www.tech-pro.net/howto_030b.html

[Aries205]

wow that really sux...

[fred_fred2004]

Just google for Winrar its free to try, and there are many freeware versions

[Aries205]

Originally Posted by fred_fred2004

Just google for Winrar its free to try, and there are many freeware versions

thanks guys. everyone has been a great deal of help. really appreciate this information..

[bizzyjb]

You don't need to buy any software. Just download 7zip, it's free. Also, it is obvious you are talking about pirated videos here...they always .rar em up like that.

Probably shouldn't talk about these things in the way that you did, you're liable to get banned.