Parse RAR files to read media files in them

did the rar support ever get added for subtitles?
autogk can now support external subtitles, and it generates
them in .rar format.

thanks,

(detroit @ june 07 2004,20:01 Wrote:did the rar support ever get added for subtitles?

no, no rar support has been added at all yet, i think the dvelopment on it has been halted, i've not heard anything on it for a while

how is the project for developing support for playing videos in rar archives (from ms windows) going along?

its been a long time since any progress reports were out...

keep up the good work! :bowdown:


- buzzz

you plan to code something for xbmc or ...?
else i have to move this to support or to the feature suggestions.

feel free to move this to the feature request section.
sorry if i posted in an internal forum.

fyi, as you can see in this development thread (link) damien7579 said he started coding this but not updated the thread in a while

hi i have a film but it is about 90 rar files what do i have to do
to whatch it from the hd on the xbox
the box plays avi files without any problem even subs with xbmc
help please
kinky koen

umm you need to unrar it.

rar files are archived files. the movie is contained in them. kinda like how you would unzip a zipped file. but it's split into a number of files.

google for winrar and use it to unrar the movie.

on a pc there's no app (that i know of) that plays media straight from the rar's- why should xbmc be any different?- the fact is unless you were using the python bit torrent script the rar's would have been on your pc's hd first and winrar will extract it on your pc for you

the compression in rar archive is not particularly great compared to the uncompressed source (you may get 5% reduction) if the resulting image is >4gb then stream it from your pc rather than move it to the xbox hd (unless you have only a fat32 partition on your hd and the uncompressed file is >4gb- in which case- you're stumped)

if its added then cool- but it doesn't seem to me to be an urgent addition

could xbmc realisticaly handle unrarring and playing back at the same time- i have a two year old athlon pc- which is by no means cutting edge but certainly more powerful than an xbox (friendtech or otherwise) and unrarring an archive is fairly cpu intensive

@devs; fyi, looks like mplayer added unrarlib to thier cvs, i'm not sure for what reason (or why they choose unrarlib, it's quite old).
i think/guess they may have added it for the sole reason to read ( uncompress / unpack) vobsub's directly from rar archive, or?