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You know people who use WinRAR?

by JayJee 11y ago

dfc 11y ago
Have you ever downloaded a scene release?
- JayJee 11y ago
  You do realise you can decompress .rar using 7zip right?
  - DanBC 11y ago
    But the scene releases are not using 7zip to create the rars, are they?
    - pen2l 11y ago
      Among the movers and shakers in the scene, isn't there generally a predilection to use free software over non-free software? E.g. the only time I run across matroska contained movies is when it's released from the scene.
      - lmm 11y ago
        Not really. There's a general predilection for the best software available, especially since they're unconstrained by purchase costs. Often the free program is the best, but not always.
      - ce4 11y ago
        "Best software" - Are you joking? Scene releases use winrar mostly for packing and splitting. Usually null-compression is used.
  - deleted 11y ago
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- jmnicolas 11y ago
  Yeah it's usually an ISO within multiple RARs within multiple ZIPs. And this is when they don't act playful and use an obscure archive format that can only be extracted with a (paid or free but infected) closed source app. Depending on the platform I'm using I have some code in bash, Powershell and C# to deal with this. Non coders must have a hard time !
  - rustynails 11y ago
    Jdownloader automatically extracts archives, no fancy scripts needed. From my observation, most downloads are rar format (95% at a guess), but it doesn't really matter if it's rar or 7z as the differences in resource usage are negligible. The good news is that most archives support free extraction of both formats.
  - i336_ 11y ago
    What formats are you referring to? o.o
    - jmnicolas 11y ago
      It's bin a while since I encountered it, but I remember having to hunt for MagicISO or PowerISO to open several archives that I couldn't find anywhere else.
Strom 11y ago
I and everyone I know locally uses WinRAR, nobody uses 7zip.
LeoNatan25 11y ago
You don't!?
- JayJee 11y ago
  I don't. Feel free to read my reasoning here: http://www.7-zip.org/license.txt http://www.7-zip.org/license.txt
  - hannob 11y ago
    They could try to replace the nonfree unrar code with the one from libarchive.
deepsun 11y ago
In Russia RAR is still the default format :(
s_kilk 11y ago
Seems to be mostly Russians and warez scene kids still using winrar
- RDeckard 11y ago
  What about Ukrainians?

You know people who use WinRAR?

by JayJee 11y ago

You know people who use WinRAR?

dfc 11y ago

Have you ever downloaded a scene release?

JayJee 11y ago
You do realise you can decompress .rar using 7zip right?
- DanBC 11y ago
  But the scene releases are not using 7zip to create the rars, are they?
  - pen2l 11y ago
    Among the movers and shakers in the scene, isn't there generally a predilection to use free software over non-free software? E.g. the only time I run across matroska contained movies is when it's released from the scene.
    - lmm 11y ago
      Not really. There's a general predilection for the best software available, especially since they're unconstrained by purchase costs. Often the free program is the best, but not always.
    - ce4 11y ago
      "Best software" - Are you joking? Scene releases use winrar mostly for packing and splitting. Usually null-compression is used.
- deleted 11y ago
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jmnicolas 11y ago
Yeah it's usually an ISO within multiple RARs within multiple ZIPs. And this is when they don't act playful and use an obscure archive format that can only be extracted with a (paid or free but infected) closed source app. Depending on the platform I'm using I have some code in bash, Powershell and C# to deal with this. Non coders must have a hard time !
- rustynails 11y ago
  Jdownloader automatically extracts archives, no fancy scripts needed. From my observation, most downloads are rar format (95% at a guess), but it doesn't really matter if it's rar or 7z as the differences in resource usage are negligible. The good news is that most archives support free extraction of both formats.
- i336_ 11y ago
  What formats are you referring to? o.o
  - jmnicolas 11y ago
    It's bin a while since I encountered it, but I remember having to hunt for MagicISO or PowerISO to open several archives that I couldn't find anywhere else.

Strom 11y ago

I and everyone I know locally uses WinRAR, nobody uses 7zip.

LeoNatan25 11y ago

You don't!?

JayJee 11y ago
I don't. Feel free to read my reasoning here: http://www.7-zip.org/license.txt http://www.7-zip.org/license.txt
- hannob 11y ago
  They could try to replace the nonfree unrar code with the one from libarchive.

deepsun 11y ago

In Russia RAR is still the default format :(

s_kilk 11y ago

Seems to be mostly Russians and warez scene kids still using winrar

RDeckard 11y ago
What about Ukrainians?