Rar Mount 3 for MediaPortal (2 Viewers)

[boondoggle]

Im trying to find the issue here -> Issues - dokan - Project Hosting on Google Code
but i cant? Is there a small chance you could build a version of the dll of 0.5.3 for me to test? plz? It seems Asakaw have a lot of bugs to kill before 0.6.0 comes out :/

 

[Maedhros]

I am unfortunately stationed in Stockholm at our Swedish office, so I don't have the source code at hand. However, the current version is 0.5.3 I think. I updated it as the first thing I think. The next version will be 0.6.0.

I have been playing with the thought of using SharpZipLib for the task instead though. It seems that it might be possible to stream the stuff directly in-memory without need for a mounted drive and so on. Then feeding that stream to the internal player. But I haven't looked into this due to too many extra projects besides work.

 

[boondoggle]

I just read about it here -> SharpZipLib - Main Page - SharpDevelop Wiki and it said that it supports zip files.. however most (all) movies comes in rar files? Back to wish for Asakaw to push 0.6.0 again?

 

[Maedhros]

Argh... sorry.... probably read "tar" as "rar" when I found it ;-)
You see what you want to see ;-)

However, THIS project looks VERY interesting!! - NUnrar - Unrar in pure C#

NUnrar looks like the kind of thing we would need ;-)

Then the plugin basically becomes af stream-forwarder... just feed the stream to the player..... wiiith a little bit of magic besides that of course ;-)

So far... other than that we will need Dokan 0.6.0 :-/

 

[boondoggle]

Humm.. looks too good to be true? Hope you could do som magic and push something to try with nunrar

 

[gurabli]

First of all: all my RESPECT for this great plugin! It works excellent (at least until now I did not have any problems).

But (and there always have to be a BUT), do I get it right, that subtitles are not working (yet)? Or it is me who is doing something wrong. Most of the time I use external subtitles (srt) with mkv files (TV shows), is it possible to have them displayed?
If not, maybe VobSub can do the thing?


EDIT:

I have found a solution that works perfectly for external subtitles using Rar Mount3 in MP 1.1.

- first of all, you have to use ffdshow as your default video codec (I'm using latest SAF 5beta pack, ffdshow with DXVA support)
- you create a folder for subtitles, for eg: 'D:\Subtitles'and you download all your subtitles into this folder (REMEMBER: the video file and the subtitle must have the same file name)
- enable subtitle support in ffdshow config, and configure the subtitle properties according to your preferences
- select the created subtitle folder in ffdshow as a default folder for subtitles

That is all, you have your subtitles displayed when staring the movie.
Of course, there are some drawbacks, but I think there are easy to live with:

- you can not change the subtitle ON/OFF during playback (well, maybe you can configure a shortcut for remote in ffdshow for turning subtitles ON/OFF, have not tried yet)
- you can not switch between different language subtitles, that is, you will have only one subtitle displayed

I really think that this is quite a good solution. BTW, the embedded subtitles in MKV files work without ffdshow subtitle support.

I hope this helps you!

 

[Sparrismanne]

Hi

I need help. Installed the 3.0.1 rarmount and everything looked like it worked fine. I got the episoed i´m trying with into tv-series and tryed to play but nothing, and i meen nothing happend.

What am i doing wrong?

 

[palox]

i got the same problem.. almost.. it works fine with the series (rar stored .avi or mkv). But when i click a movie (rar stored dvd .iso \ img) nothing _ NOTHING, happens... i can't figure out why... help anyone? some easy settings that i've clicked wrong someplace?

 

[Keldandorin]

Got the same problem to
/Håkan

 

[palox]

works with rared MKV files.. it mounts them and plays them.. just wont mount iso files? i cant figure out why..