Plugin: RARFileSource (A rar filter) (3 Viewers)

[pody]

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.

Well RarFileSource is not made for the first two things. It's made for playing media-files without extracting. You will always have to extract subs and iso's if you want to use them.

Extracting media-info is something I also have asked for a few posts up, but In the end I just stopped caring about what it says. It would be nice if it showed the correct information, but it's really not that big of a deal for me anymore.
What you can do is remove all the media-info logos and it won't show anything. You'll loose all that stuff for you regular media-files also, but at least you don't have to see all that wrong information for your rar-files. That's what I did in the beginning, until I re-installed and had to to it again, then I didn't bother.

The third one I did not know actually.

It looks like all development have stopped for this plugin. It's a little shame, but at least it works for what it's supposed to to.

 

[JBravo]

Well, there are unfortunaltely some hard limitations for this plugin. We'll have to wait for MP2 to get support for virtual filesystems...

 

[SiLenTYL]

does 0.4.0.0 work with MP 1.3 alpha?

ive never used this plugin before, but im getting "unable to play blahblah.rar"

 

[pody]

does 0.4.0.0 work with MP 1.3 alpha?

ive never used this plugin before, but im getting "unable to play blahblah.rar"

It works like a charm for me. Are you getting errors in 1.3?

Can you open the rar file with another media player? It's smart to check that it's not on that end first.

 

[SiLenTYL]

Not sure what u mean another program.. I'm using media portal.
Do I need to do anything after installing the mpe1?

 

[pody]

Not sure what u mean another program.. I'm using media portal.
Do I need to do anything after installing the mpe1?

No you don't have to do anything other then install it. It's just that when a rar-file doesn't work for me, I usually check if it works with another media player (wmp, mpc...) before automatically thinking it's a MP problem. And it's always the same, a corrupt rar-file that is causing the trouble.

But I'm guessing with that answer, no rar-files works for you.
It's hard to know what that can be. It has always just worked for me without any problems whatsoever for all MP versions.

 

[boondoggle]

Im trying to update from 0.3 to 0.4 using mpei but i get this "Invalid update information, installation aborted" error. Im using MP 1.2.3.0.

 

[pody]

Im trying to update from 0.3 to 0.4 using mpei but i get this "Invalid update information, installation aborted" error. Im using MP 1.2.3.0.

Try updating using the Extensions Installer.

 

[boondoggle]

Uhm, thats what i was using? "mpei" Media Portal Extension Installer?

 

[pody]

Uhm, thats what i was using? "mpei" Media Portal Extension Installer?

Oh I thought you meant you updated via the mpei file, not the program.

Well, then you should try to download and update via the mpei file manually. That has worked for me when Extension Installer is being difficult.