#87 rar support

[Anonymous]

There is program that is capable to play rar files and is based on mplayer so probably it wont be too difficult to add support to smplayer.the program is called Dziobas Rar Player > http://ds6.ovh.org/drp.html

btw. if you already dont know, with this command line its possible to play rar files directly using unrar.exe and mplayer.exe:

unrar.exe p -inul "C:\path to archive\part01.rar" | "mplayer.exe" -

but you must write it exactly this way with quotes and long spaces and minus on the end

ps: smplayer is very good player, so keep up the good work and i wish you good luck!!!

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I think this is the top feature request for a lot of people.

The XBOX Media Center project (XBMC) has a very stable solution that can even fast forward and reverse a file at (visible) x4 speed while playing a RAR archived ISO of a DVD movie. And that's on a 733MHz processor, extremely impressive! I think they still base their code on MPlayer, so their source might be of use to you. Check it out, if you haven't already: http://www.xboxmediacenter.com/download_source.htm

Thanks!

[dott]

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You can do it yourself:
open an explorer window → menu→ tools→ folder options...→ file type→ RAR→ advanced options→ New...→ -in «action»: "Open with &SMPlayer"(or so); in «application use......»: ''' "x:\path\to\unrar.exe" p -inul "%1" | "x:\path\to\smplayer.exe" '''

Note: I'm using an Spanish Windows ==> maybe some names or words don't match with real English windows.

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You can't rewind with that solution, and fast forward didn't work very well if I remember correctly. Read my comment about XBMC.