Working with alternate file compression in Gnom

[RiverWind <riverwind shellworld net>]

Hey There,

This question is for those of you who use the gnome interface in
order to play movie and sound files that come in compressed
archives. I am particularly concerned with rar files. I can usually
go into a directory/ folder, place my curser on the desired file,
which is usually a zip archive full of mp3 files, hit enter and
play the files with no problem. However, this doesn't happen with
files with the rar extension. I use movie player, because I know of
no other utility that is nearly so effective as MP. Are there any
utilities in the linux windows environment that I can use in order
to address this problem? Thanks so much in advance.

cheerio,
Riv

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