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<blockquote data-quote="misterd" data-source="post: 160493" data-attributes="member: 19503">I had a look at the implementation of this in XBMC. IMHO th rar support can't be ported to MP without porting a lot of other things, because XBMC has completly different handling of videos. XBMC has a virtual file system for example, but MP and windows doesn't have such a file system. There are also other reason why this can't be easily ported to MP.It think that there are several options to implement such a feature:- Extract the content to a temporary folder and play it from there. This is what Aaron's plugin is doing.- Create a directshow source filter, which extract the archive on the fly. But this is very complicated job.- A mix of the other solution. Extract the file on the fly and create a rtsp stream of this or something similar. MP can then play this rtsp stream.All solutions include that the main MP plugins have to be updated to read the content of the archive, but I think that this is a big problem.These are just my ideas and I don't plan to implement one of these solutions, because personally I don't need this feature.Regards,MisterD</blockquote>

[QUOTE="misterd, post: 160493, member: 19503"] I had a look at the implementation of this in XBMC. IMHO th rar support can't be ported to MP without porting a lot of other things, because XBMC has completly different handling of videos. XBMC has a virtual file system for example, but MP and windows doesn't have such a file system. There are also other reason why this can't be easily ported to MP. It think that there are several options to implement such a feature: - Extract the content to a temporary folder and play it from there. This is what Aaron's plugin is doing. - Create a directshow source filter, which extract the archive on the fly. But this is very complicated job. - A mix of the other solution. Extract the file on the fly and create a rtsp stream of this or something similar. MP can then play this rtsp stream. All solutions include that the main MP plugins have to be updated to read the content of the archive, but I think that this is a big problem. These are just my ideas and I don't plan to implement one of these solutions, because personally I don't need this feature. Regards, MisterD [/QUOTE]

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