RarPlayer plugin
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by and-81

This is a simple plugin that extracts a RAR file to a temporary location
for playback in MediaPortal.

This is not a perfect solution.  It does not play the file from within the
archive, it temporarily extracts it.  It requires particular file naming
to work.

I can improve it, but I don't really want to because I don't use RAR files.

I am willing to make changes and improvements, but I'd prefer someone else
picked up the source code and made their own improvements.

Source code is located in MediaPortal's plugin SVN.


Details:
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Here is an example of how the RAR file must be named:

Movie.avi.rar

With the file inside to play named "Movie.avi".

I know this is a silly restriction, and I'll try to fix it later, but for
now you'll just have to deal with it.



Installation:
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Copy RarPlayer.dll to "Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\Plugins\ExternalPlayers\".
Copy UnRar.exe to "Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\".
Go to MediaPortal Configuration and add ".rar" to the list of movie file extensions.



Good luck,

 - Aaron.