PSA about par files

[ElFenix]

if you're going to bother making them, please use more than 2 blocks per 50 meg file

thanks

 

[dartworth]

PAR

 

[Viperoni]

You mean, *gasp*, PAR files are supposed to be useful? :Q

 

[DaveSimmons]

Parrr Matey!

 

[Anonemous]

I PARrrrrrrrr... therefore I am.

 

[JoeKing]

par2 rocks! :thumbsup:

 

[WobbleWobble]

Originally posted by: JoeKing
par2 rocks! :thumbsup:

Much better system :thumbsup:

 

Whos copyrights are you infringing on?

 

[ElFenix]

Originally posted by: JoeKing
par2 rocks! :thumbsup:

if you use more than 2 blocks per 50 meg file. 10 would be nice. 20 would be better. ideally, you'd make them the same size as your part size

 

[ElFenix]

Originally posted by: SampSon
Whos copyrights are you infringing on?

me, infringe copyright? never.

 

[eelw]

Originally posted by: ElFenix
if you're going to bother making them, please use more than 2 blocks per 50 meg file

thanks

And should you do the above, please don't include the *.sfv and *.nfo files in the par set.

 

[dartworth]

PAR2

 

[dartworth]

Originally posted by: SampSon
Whos copyrights are you infringing on?

😱

 

[JoeKing]

Originally posted by: ElFenix

Originally posted by: JoeKing
par2 rocks! :thumbsup:

if you use more than 2 blocks per 50 meg file. 10 would be nice. 20 would be better. ideally, you'd make them the same size as your part size

I usually set it by 15% of the entire file size.

 

[Viperoni]

Originally posted by: eelw

Originally posted by: ElFenix
if you're going to bother making them, please use more than 2 blocks per 50 meg file

thanks

And should you do the above, please don't include the *.sfv and *.nfo files in the par set.

Haha very true :thumbsdown:

 

[0roo0roo]

par2 is awesome

 

[mercanucaribe]

Why do people use these obscure file formats? What's wrong with zip or even rar?

 

[eelw]

Originally posted by: mercanucaribe
Why do people use these obscure file formats? What's wrong with zip or even rar?

Extracting multipart zip files are a pain. Files with *.001, *.002 files can be recombined with either WinRAR or HJSplit. If the extension is *.ts, there HD transport stream files and can be recombined with HDTV2MPEG. *.nfo files are just text files containing details of on with the post is. *.sfv files are checksum files used to ensure the files are not corrupt. But *.sfv have really become unnecessary with Par/Par2 files. Since they contain the necessary CRC info to check and then repair files.

 

[DaveJ]

Originally posted by: mercanucaribe
Why do people use these obscure file formats? What's wrong with zip or even rar?

.zip doesn't offer recovery features like .rar (with a corresponding .par set). Which means no more downloading 50meg files, only to find them corrupted and useless. Par2 rocks! 😀

Dave

 

[cavemanmoron]

Originally posted by: DaveSimmons
Parrr Matey!

😎😕

 

[Aves]

Originally posted by: mercanucaribe
Why do people use these obscure file formats? What's wrong with zip or even rar?

PAR files aren't obscure. ZIP & RAR are basically compression formats, PAR is a parity file for reconstructing damaged files.

 

[FleshLight]

And whoever posted that crappy quality movie (that I happened to be looking for) without any nfo on a.b.m.d should be banned.

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: DaveSimmons
Parrr Matey!

+5: Funny

 

[0roo0roo]

Originally posted by: mercanucaribe
Why do people use these obscure file formats? What's wrong with zip or even rar?

look it up. a few par files allow u to restore a corrupt file out of the whole batch up to the amount of pars u have. its a way of safe guarding data.

 

[xospec1alk]

Originally posted by: FleshLight
And whoever posted that crappy quality movie (that I happened to be looking for) without any nfo on a.b.m.d should be banned.

be thankful it was even posted =)