Thread: Play / Open RARd files without extracting

WINDOWS

1. Download the Dziobas RAR Player: Download Dziobas RAR Player 0.009.39

2. Open it and drag and drop any of the .rar files into the application.

Good sides of playing .rar'd video files without extracting?

Handy when you don't have enough HDD space to extract the file.
Faster, when you don't have to extract the file, extracting a 10GB 1080p x264 movie could take a while.
This application can also play files which are password protected.



Source: Originally posted by Buttle on RevTT

LINUX

This tutorial will show you how to play rar'ed movies without the need to extract them. There is no delay, seeking works and you can use any media player you like. This is the holy grail of playing scene releases... I've been searching for a long time and I finally have a decent solution :)

This tutorial requires linux. It is aimed at playing movies in mythTV, but you can follow the first half if you just want to play rar'ed movies on your desktop.

We're going to install rarfs, which allows you to mount rar files. First we need to install some dependencies. The following command assumes a debian based distro...

sudo apt-get install subversion automake1.9 fuse-utils libfuse-dev

Now download rarfs:

wget http://kent.dl.sourceforge.net/sourc...s-0.0.8.tar.gz

(If the link doesn't work, download the latest release from Browse rarfs Files on SourceForge.net. The latest SVN version is broken, so don't try it!)

Extract, compile and install:

tar xvf rarfs-0.0.8.tar.gz
cd rarfs-0.0.8
./configure
make
sudo make install

Now we need to allow your user to run fusermount without being root.

sudo adduser mrbarby fuse
sudo chgrp fuse /dev/fuse
sudo chgrp fuse /bin/fusermount
sudo chmod u+s /bin/fusermount

All done! You can now mount a rar file with the following command:

mount.fuse rarfs#/data/download/movie.rar /my/mount/dir

This script will automatically mount, play and unmount once you've finished (you'll need to create the directory 'rarmount' in your home dir):

#!/bin/sh
DIR=/home/`whoami`/rarmount/
mount.fuse rarfs#$1 $DIR
mplayer -fs -zoom -quiet $DIR`ls $DIR | grep .avi`
fusermount -u $DIR

Save the script as rarplay.sh, then "chmod u+x rarplay.sh" and the command "./rarplay.sh /data/download/movie.rar" will mount the file and play it in mplayer. If you'd rather use a different player, just modify the script.



Finally we need to get mythTV playing rars:
1. Open up the frontend, go into "options, settings, video settings, file types" (off the top of my head, so probably not 100% accurate... if you can't find the correct menu then reply and I'll find it).
2. Add a new file type.
3. Set the filetype to rar, untick "use default player" and in the command box, enter "/home/mrbarby/rarplay.sh %s", or point it to where you saved your copy of the script.

Restart the front end and mythvideo will now play rar files!


Source: ScT

thanks for the post .. will be very useful for me :DDD

thx, I already do this quite often was wondering if anyone knows a way to do this on linux...

:laugh:

Originally Posted by Lardo

thx, I already do this quite often was wondering if anyone knows a way to do this on linux...

edited first post with windows and linux way. hope this helps.

BS player does this as well, plus I think a few other players are capable of doing this.

beautiful! Just out of curiousity tho', why do u need to go through mounting the files / etc in linux? I understand the concept, but in windows dzobias plays it right out of the box, seems a little odd that u have to mount it in linux..that's like, some dvd players will play .iso files (without mounting them), once u mount the iso file your no longer playing the iso file, your then playing the files within the .iso which are mounted. Guess it does save the Hard drive space whatever the method but just seems odd..

Cool piece of information man.. thanks ! It will really help guys like me who always keep running out of space

Great info but program appears to not work with Vista?

Can anyone confirm/deny?

Great post, I will try it, I do have limited space and i still want to keep seeding the movies that I downloaded so I think I will give this a try, but I think the only issue it if it can also use SRT files for the subtitle?