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Moving Pictures is a movies plug-in for the MediaPortal media center application. The goal of the plug-in is to create a very focused and refined experience that requires minimal user interaction. The plug-in emphasizes usability and ease of use in managing a movie collection consisting of ripped DVDs, and movies reencoded in common video formats supported by MediaPortal.
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Support Video Files Stored in Compressed RARs File #57

Closed GoogleCodeExporter closed 9 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
emphatic:
"Will there be support for .rar-file archives way, way into the future of
this plugin? There is a .rar plugin already for MP. Perhaps this could be
utilized somehow in the future. I have no problem myself with unraring my
media, but there are people who like to keep their media as rars. Also,
XBMC has had .rar support for a long time. It could be a cool feature."

This could be an interesting feature. I am not sure I see a large value
though because video is already compressed as it is. Storage space savings
when RARing a video file are not going to be very dramatic. Plus hard
drives are cheap and their size is skyrocketing. That being said if there
is enough interest in this feature, maybe we could implement it.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by conrad.john on 28 Aug 2008 at 9:03

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
this would be a nice feature though. cause almost everything released out there 
is
released in rar. and as you say this will not save any space but it will save 
time
and trouble unpacking. this is what i heared i one reason why some ppl use xbmc.

Original comment by swerus...@gmail.com on 21 Sep 2008 at 8:09

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago

Original comment by conrad.john on 16 Oct 2008 at 3:21

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago

Original comment by conrad.john on 14 Dec 2008 at 6:19

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
related resource: http://wiki.sharpdevelop.net/SharpZipLib_MainPage.ashx

Original comment by apond...@gmail.com on 10 Mar 2009 at 12:02

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Have done some development myself with a mp plugin that directly plays rar 
files.
I used unrar.dll.
I had to use the mplayer plugin, because the internal player couldn't/cann't 
handle
partly unpacked files. (Total time of movie, seeking problem)

But this combination worked.
At the moment i unpack the file to disk, but im working on doing this in memory
(stdin stdout)
From the commandline this already works perfect.
http://www.rarlab.com/rar_add.htm

Original comment by john.epr...@gmail.com on 13 Mar 2009 at 12:15

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Hi.
Are you talking about single RAR file or multible archives?
will the MP not have to unrar the file to memory if this is a multible archives?
will that not take to mutche time?

Just a thought.

Bjarki

Original comment by bjark...@gmail.com on 9 Jun 2009 at 9:24

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
http://forum.team-mediaportal.com/watch-edit-videos-104/watch-rar-files-my-video
s-easy-way-56748/

Directshow filter that handles rar files

Original comment by kiwijung...@gmail.com on 24 Nov 2009 at 6:23

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Based on the fact that a DirectShow filter now exists that accomplishes the 
same 
thing, I am going to close this issue. If anyone for some reason feels this 
issue 
should remain open, post your reasons below and we can discuss.

Original comment by conrad.john on 26 Nov 2009 at 12:26