A tar question

[Dan Murphy]

Hi all.
I recently downloaded a version of MPlayer but the archive is a type I've 
never seen before.
the file name is MPlayer-1.0pre6.tar.bz2, and I've never seen the .bz2 
extention.  Can I 
use tar to unpack this, and what options should I use, or do I need 
another utility to do it?
Thanks.
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dan Murphy
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