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Duff-Man says....rar is a compressed file (like zip) so you don't watch a rar video, you unrar the archive and then use the player you prefer....look for UnrarX or Stuffit Expander, they'll do the job....oh yeah!
.rar is not a video format. It is an archive format that is popular with USNET newsgroups and file sharing sites. There are many MacOS X utilities that will extract your video from the .rar archive. Stuffit Expander and The Unarchiver are just two.
As for playing your video: With Perian and Flip4Mac QuickTime codecs installed, you can play darned near everything.
I have .zip and .rar files in Winterboard after installing themes from Iconharvester. How do I access them? I've tried DiskAid, iFile, and openSSH/winSCP and all of these methods still don't show said compressed files. Anyone? Please help! TIA
Have you tried any of the mentioned software titles yet - UnRar X, The Unarchiver, Stuffit Expander - or do they not work in your situation?
How did you get the .rar files on the phone? Is it jailbroken?
Anyway, I don't know of such software for iOS, maybe it would be easier to get those files onto your Mac OS X or Windows or Linux computer and use the respective applications to decompress those files and get the resulting files onto your phone again. Or don't you have access to a working computer? OS does not really matter, as the ones I mentioned have the ability and the applications to handle those files.
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Hey Spinner, I noticed the .rar and .zip files after installing a few themes via Iconharvester. And yes, I have a MacBook Pro. I've tried all the aforementioned methods and even most recently, PhoneDisk, but still no luck seeing any of these files in private/var/stash/themes.