RAR suport for movies

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Hi,

there are many releases spreaded on internet, according scene rules, they
are archived by RAR, but they use STORE compression (no compression at all
is used). Nowadays more and more players can play movie from RAR archive,
so why not to have this feature in Movist ?

Thanks.

some references:
http://trac.opensubtitles.org/projects/opensubtitles/wiki/RarSourceCodes

Original issue reported on code.google.com by opensubt...@gmail.com on 3 Jul 2009 at 6:12

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i'd love that feature! any alternative which can do it?
vlc's rar expander won't work for me, plus, it's an extra application.

Original comment by xem...@gmail.com on 24 Dec 2009 at 3:56

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This is true...but do you actually store the movies in the 50 RAR archives 
files they
download in, or do you extract them before dropping them to DVD / NAS? If they 
are
going to be extracted for storage anyway, then whats the point of delaying 
extraction
until after you watch the movie (i.e. why not extract it and watch it given 
that you
are going to wind up extracting it anyway). I'm not sure I see a benefit to 
this,
which means there are probably other people who can't see the benefit 
either...maybe
some other people can comment their suggestions?

Original comment by james.si...@gmail.com on 23 Jan 2010 at 5:21

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why we should extract them, when there exists players, which can play them from 
the
RARs ? Why I would burni it to DVD ? I download movie from NAS, watch it and 
later
delete it. So thats the point. AFAIK there is only one player on MAC which can 
play
this, and thats XBMC (and all programs based on it). But thats not simple 
player, but
media center.

Original comment by opensubt...@gmail.com on 23 Jan 2010 at 8:07

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Hell f*cking no.

Do not support the RAR stupidity, please, I'm begging you on my knees here.

It makes no sense to play *VIDEO* from a RAR file.
Do you know how RAR files work? Do you know that you need to extract ( at least 
) a 
portion of the file anyway, and with multiple RARs the only justification for 
this 
madness, is to mix and match only with a full RAR file. Say, r001 being a 'key' 
that 
points all the rars in the correct order, so you can jumble up the other ones 
in an 
attempt to not share working portions of a 'movie' illegally.

It's a stupid 'feature', it's not needed and it's not nice.

#3

You should extract them because chopping stuff into 15MB files is *RETARDED*, 
especially when most of these "files" from "Scene" comes over BitTorrent 
anyways.

Stop being a part of the problem and join the solution.
Non-RAR releases is seriously a reason for lots of groups to get banned by the 
so-
called "scene".

Original comment by fido...@gmail.com on 1 Feb 2010 at 10:07

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fidomuh: you know nothing about RARs. You know nothing about scene. OK, lets 
have
this common story:
1. you are downloading movie, it is SCENE release (that is standard, you should 
be
thankful to scene releases!), lets say, I have NAT drive (not so powrful CPU,
conencted throught 100mbit network). 
2. Now, if I have to unpack all the files, I have to do it through the network, 
which
takes really long time, or on NAT, which is not solution too
3. If you unpack files, you have to keep original one, so you can seed.

that means, it have a lot of sense to do a player, which support RAR files (it 
is
just wrapper!), those RAR files aren't compressed at all (store compression, 
almost
same like splitting files). 

There are many players on Windows, which supports RAR files, but any on MAC OS 
X.

Original comment by opensubt...@gmail.com on 1 Feb 2010 at 11:26

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VLC on Mac OS X has had rar-support since 1.0.0, see changelog at 
http://git.videolan.org/?
p=vlc.git;a=blob_plain;f=NEWS;hb=HEAD. You can't do "Open with" or associate 
rar-files with VLC, but it 
works if you drag and drop the files onto your playlist in VLC.

I use the feature from time to time. The only reason is because it saves me the 
time it takes to extract the 
archives (which essentially is just a file copying because scene releases are 
never compressed).

Source code: 
http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc.git;a=blob_plain;f=modules/stream_filter/rar.c;hb
=HEAD
Other resources:
- 
http://libxad.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/libxad/support/formats/RAR202.txt?revis
ion=1.1&view=markup
- http://trac.opensubtitles.org/projects/opensubtitles/wiki/RarSourceCodes

Original comment by johanlu...@gmail.com on 7 Feb 2010 at 7:31

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Yes it would be awesome if it would support .rar!!

Original comment by trdan.ta...@gmail.com on 27 Apr 2010 at 2:12

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I agree :) also I tried it in VLC, it works, thanks for sharing info, Johan!

Original comment by gege...@gmail.com on 30 Apr 2010 at 6:42