Streaming RAR files (1 Viewer)

[zukex]

afaik xbmc fold used UniquE RAR File Library that's in there.... but that's way different though for various reasons

 

[zukex]

i tried the rarFS 0.0.8 with mediaportal.. doesn't work as mediaportal doesn't treat the rars like folders like explorer does

 

[shacknasty]

Has anyone tried using VLC external player plugin for playing rar files?

 

[mrkrad]

why can't we just hire someone to do it right like XBMC handles it? are the authors opposed to non-compressed rar handling patches?

 

[and-81]

Nobody is opposed to this idea.

It's just that:

1. We have a very small development team who are working on other areas of the project right now.
2. We are in a self imposed "feature freeze" to try to get out a stable 0.2.3.0 Final release version.

If you can find someone to implement this and it's not a bag of bugs then it will be included into MediaPortal, I guarantee it.

Cheers,

 

[tirlibibi]

Alright, so I've put together a simple plugin to play rar files.

It's not perfect, not even close. It's not very clever either.

Read the included ReadMe.txt file for all the details.

I put it together in the last couple of hours, while watching the grand prix, so it's gunna have bugs.

I will support it, a bit. I'll improve it, a bit. But I don't use RAR files, so I'm not gunna waste too much time on it. I'd suggest someone else pick up the source and make their own changes. The source code is in MediaPortal Plugin SVN.

And I don't wanna hear any "See, it was easy, why didn't someone do it sooner!?!", because it's not. This is a crap solution, and to do it properly would take way more effort than I am willing to give.

Good luck,

The movies in rar are stored, not compress (raring a divx will not affect the size), the only thing to do to read from rar i think, it's to skip the 48 bytes header from the 1st rar and start reading!
Hardest part is to sequencially read all rar file to have a smooth movie and i rar does not only got the .rar extension, it's can be almost what you want but i will always be sequencial (.001,002..;RAR,R00..etc)

 

[diablo266]

All of my media is in rar format and extracting all of it is totally unacceptable for me. If rar support is ever fully implemented it will be fantastic, but until then i'm stuck with xbmc on the xbox (which is amazing for anything up to 540p) and running the unstable linux port for 720p media.

 

[zukex]

does the xbmc linux already support rars?

 

[gxtracker]

yes but using a rar as a folder based on FUSE or whatever should be done at the o/s level not mediaportal level.

Well said, and thats my stance on this issue too. I have nothing against people wanting to be able to access their RAR packaged media, but i can tell you that I would never vote to implement a feature like this into the core of MP.

It serves a very tiny userbase, and has the potential to take resources away from more beneficial items within the project.

If it can be accessable at the OS layer and mounting RARs like a filesystem, then MP would be able to read them without any modification at all.

 

[diablo266]

does the xbmc linux already support rars?

yes it does and it even works over samba