From: Christoffer G. <or...@0x...> - 2006-04-21 15:10:43
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I was just wondering if it is possible to play media files located in compressed archives such as rar or zip. In XBox Media Center it is possible to browse for example a rar archive and play files located in these. This would be a really nice feature to have in xine. What do you guys think ? / Christoffer Gurell |
From: Mike M. <mi...@mu...> - 2006-04-21 16:23:32
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Christoffer Gurell wrote: > I was just wondering if it is possible to play media files located in > compressed archives such as rar or zip. > > In XBox Media Center it is possible to browse for example a rar archive and > play files located in these. > > This would be a really nice feature to have in xine. What do you guys think ? Generally, this type of feature would belong in a specific frontend rather than in the xine-lib core. Or you could unzip the files. Frankly, what are you doing stuffing multimedia files into a compressed archive in the first place? The data is already compressed, usually, unless you are playing raw PCM audio files. If that's the case you would do better to use a lossless audio codec like FLAC (which xine can play) since it performs better for PCM data than general-purpose lossless compressors. -- -Mike Melanson |
From: Christoffer G. <or...@0x...> - 2006-04-21 18:31:12
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> Generally, this type of feature would belong in a specific frontend > rather than in the xine-lib core. Or you could unzip the files. I was thinking it belonged as some kind of input plugin. Just like playing files from a filesystem or the network. The only way a frontend could do this is to completely unzip the file to a tmpdir and till xine to play it from here. Or am i incorrect? > Frankly, what are you doing stuffing multimedia files into a > compressed archive in the first place? There are many reasons why i might want to keep files in an archive. Grouping is one. Splitting files in several smaller files is another. / Christoffer |