XBMC scans zips and rars for subtitles

~Coxy · 2012-08-04 07:32

Is it possibly to turn off this behaviour? It makes starting to play any video in my dump folder exceedingly slow, as it downloads every archive therein and scans them for subs.

~Coxy · 2012-08-06 05:07

I found the problem in the source:

Util.cpp, line ~2361

Code:

CDirectory::GetDirectory(strLookInPaths[step], items,".utf|.utf8|.utf-8|.sub|.srt|.smi|.rt|.txt|.ssa|.text|.ssa|.aqt|.jss|.ass|.idx|.ifo|.rar|.zip",false);

      int fnl = strMovieFileNameNoExt.size();

      for (int j = 0; j < items.Size(); j++)

      {

        URIUtils::Split(items[j]->GetPath(), strPath, strItem);

        // is this a rar or zip-file

        if (URIUtils::IsRAR(strItem) || URIUtils::IsZIP(strItem))

        {

          ScanArchiveForSubtitles( items[j]->GetPath(), strMovieFileNameNoExt, vecSubtitles );

...

Would be nice for this setting to be configurable like it is for video formats! Rather than a hardcoded string as it stands today.

Now to try to build a fixed version Rofl

~Coxy · 2012-08-06 06:57

Hex-editing the exe turned out to be a lot easier and more maintainable then building XBMC from source.
"HxD" is a good free Win32 hex editor.
Just find the string ".utf|.utf8|.utf-8|.sub|.srt|.smi|.rt|.txt|.ssa|.text|.ssa|.aqt|.jss|.ass|.idx|.ifo|.rar|.zip" in XBMC.exe.
Instead of deleting the rar and zip from the end I changed the string so the length of the binary would not be affected.

So it was .ifo|.rar|.zip
I changed it to .ifo|.rrr|.zzz

~Coxy Junior Member Posts: 6 Joined: Jul 2012 Reputation: 0	2012-08-04 07:32 Post: #1 Is it possibly to turn off this behaviour? It makes starting to play any video in my dump folder exceedingly slow, as it downloads every archive therein and scans them for subs.
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