VLC and multipart RARs - the XBMC emulation project :P

Anyone who has experienced the joy of streaming a movie in XBMC from a Windows or Linux Samba/SMB share knows just how awesome it is to have a movie that’s spread across 40-odd rar files play seamlessly and allow seeking within the file so you never really lose your place and are never forced to rewatch the first half 3 times because your router hiccuped or the machine you were streaming from rebooted. The solution for VLC doesn’t allow the seeking yet, but it has the seamless play down to a “t”. I’ve always wondered about whether this was possible and the developer who implemented it for XBMC said it could be done, but he had spent so much time doing it he wasn’t going to attempt a PC port anytime soon.

That said, we all need to give major props to Sparks, of the Videolan Forums. He has managed to throw together some code that allows seamless streaming of multipart RARs, even from a network share. I had found this information a few weeks back but didn’t have a chance to test it, last night I finally took the time to try it out and I have to say, I was VERY impressed. You can find his program in the forum thread here and be sure to copy the info on the 2nd page for creating a .reg file so you can play a folder containing multipart movies straight from the right click menu.

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