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Unpack after each part is downloaded?

Posted: January 1st, 2010, 7:51 pm
by TorAtle
Would it be possible to do the parity check and upacking for each single part, continously extracting the archive? With a plugin like nzbdStatus for FF it would probably be possible to automatically start a movie within a minute after hitting the download button.

Re: Unpack after each part is downloaded?

Posted: January 2nd, 2010, 6:14 am
by shypike
No it isn't.
The unrar utility doesn't support this.
If you have a media player that is capable of playing directly
from rar files, it might be possible.
Although the current design with a temporary and a final folder
makes that difficult too.
Also you are assuming that each download is error-free.

Re: Unpack after each part is downloaded?

Posted: January 3rd, 2010, 10:07 am
by TorAtle
Ok, thanks. It might be possible to download pars and repair a single rar if it was corrupted, but it's a moot point anyway if the unrar doesn't support it.

Re: Unpack after each part is downloaded?

Posted: January 3rd, 2010, 1:42 pm
by dalek
stream-unrar does support this.

Re: Unpack after each part is downloaded?

Posted: January 3rd, 2010, 3:27 pm
by shypike
We may look at this again for a future releases.
But there are plenty of other pressing issues to be resolved.