RAR5
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RAR 5 Preview.
At a glance
| Purpose | A RAR 5.0 archive under the .rar5 extension. |
| Extensions | .rar5 |
| Poka parser | poka-rar5 |
| Viewer | poka-metadata-card-viewer |
| Depth tier | Metadata card (see Depth tiers) |
| Breadth tier | B4 Summary (see Breadth tiers) |
How much Poka reads
B4 Summary. The container and metadata are read and summarised (counts, properties, structure), but the main content is not rendered.
Confidence: medium (the reviewer read the code). Basis: Reviewed 2026-10-26: read parsers/poka-rar5/src/main.rs (355 lines) and plugin.json. No unit tests or tests/samples.rs; the corpus has no .rar5 sample. Covers .rar5. The card walks RAR 5.0 headers (vint-encoded) and shows the header-type distribution, file entries, compressed and uncompressed totals, multi-volume, encryption and recovery-record flags, and the first 24 file entries with their encryption flag. RAR 1.5 to 4.x files are refused with a message. Judgement: B4: the archive is summarised and partly listed, but no member is extracted or shown.
What Poka does not read
- Member contents are not extracted or shown
- Only the first 24 file entries are listed
- RAR 4 and older archives are refused (the .rar module reads them)
- Archives with encrypted headers cannot be listed
- Files over 16 GiB are cut (flagged)
Libraries
Libraries Poka uses or has assessed for this format, with the status, licence and language the registry records.
- unrar (candidate; MIT OR Apache-2.0; Rust; https://github.com/muja/unrar.rs) — binds the C++ UnRAR source (unrar_sys), not pure Rust
Sources
- parsers/poka-rar5/src/main.rs
- parsers/poka-rar5/plugin.json