Plugin: RARFileSource (A rar filter) (1 Viewer)

[JBravo]

XBMC supports this if I'm not mistaken, and so should MP ;-)

Any developer up for the challange?

 

[1stdead]

Yes XMBC does support that, because it uses its own virtual file system (Basic overview of the XBMC source code - XBMC).


MP2 will support it too: https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/general-529/the_virtual_file-system-91777/

 

[ravenrocks]

I'm not sure this has to do with the plugin. Can you play unpacked img-files otherwise? If not, then do this:
Add the filetype under Videos, Video Extensions in Configuration, add .iso also while you're at it.

 

[JBravo]

Both .img and .iso can be played when unpacked. Virtual Clone Drive is used to mount the images.

 

[1stdead]

News in version 0.9.3, released 2012-02-04 (OctaneSnail)
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- Fixed problems loading archives containing a mix of media and non-media files.
- Workaround to allow loading archives with missing LONG_BLOCK flag.
- Workaround to allow loading any part in a multi-volume archive with
MHD_FIRSTVOLUME incorrectly set on all parts.
- A few minor bug fixes.
- Big thanks to John Peterson for reporting the above problems and contributing
patches to solve them.
- Fixed loading archives with unknown file header data.
- Be more lenient when loading multi-volume archives containing multiple files,
if parts are missing, allow complete files found so far to play.

 

[gurabli]

Great news, one of a must have plugins! RESPECT!

 

[pody]

What do you guys do to extract the media-info from the video files when importing?
It's the only thing left that is annoying me a little bit.

 

[JBravo]

Hi,

I can't install RARFileSource version 0.4.0.0 from MP Extension Installer, even if I explicitly select 0.4.0.0, 0.3.0.0 is installed!?

Is 0.4.0.0 available for download somewhere?

EDIT: Download from here, http://rarfilesource.googlecode.com/files/RARFileSource.0.4.mpe1

 

[1stdead]

Yeah i somehow managed to f**k up the installer. I will try and fix that later.. sorry

 

[JBravo]

Great, thanks.

Do anyone have some good solutions to the following issues when using RARFileSource?

- Subtitles included in the RAR file is not found.
- RARs containing iso's can't be played.
- The Dynamic Refresh Rate feature in MP doesn't pick up media-info, thus the default frame rate is always used.
- Extract media-info when importing.

For 1 and 2 the current solution is to manually extract the contents.