Add rar2fs binary

robeen · January 6, 2019 at 3:15 PM

rar2fs is a FUSE based file system that can mount a source RAR archive/volume or a directory containing any number of RAR archives and read the contents as regular files on-the-fly.

GitHub - hasse69/rar2fs: FUSE file system for reading RAR archives

Kodi already got built-in support for this but rar2fs would make it possible to also add this feature for any docker plugin.The Plex server for instance.

**CvH** · January 6, 2019 at 4:10 PM Official Post

Good idea, could you test it?

If so what platform?

**vpeter** · January 6, 2019 at 4:12 PM

rar2fs is nice. Was using it around 2010. But who is using rars in 2019

**CvH** · January 6, 2019 at 4:13 PM Official Post

For whatever reason more ppl then you would expect.

**vpeter** · January 6, 2019 at 4:19 PM

Quote from CvH

For whatever reason more ppl then you would expect.

Seems true. And this program is still maintained.

And I remembered I know the author

robeen · January 7, 2019 at 10:32 AM

Quote from CvH

Good idea, could you test it?

If so what platform?

Absolutely, I will gladly test it

Running Generic.x86_64 on an Intel NUC.

**CvH** · January 7, 2019 at 2:35 PM Official Post

Index of /addons/9.0/fs-tools/

pls have a try

**vpeter** · January 7, 2019 at 3:32 PM

Seems to be working with sample rar file I have.

robeen · January 8, 2019 at 1:06 AM

Testing with the Plex docker plugin and no problems so far.

Note that I'm even mounting an already mounted sshfs location.

Plex is scanning surprisingly fast and indexing all content.

Streaming 1080p works perfectly fine both through the Plex Web and the Plex App on my iPhone.

I'm very pleased, thanks a lot

**CvH** · January 8, 2019 at 2:01 PM Official Post

could someone paste me an short howto how you used it ?

I want to reproduce it at ARM if it works there too but I have really no idea Packaging an video into an rar archive is no problem.

**vpeter** · January 8, 2019 at 2:08 PM

I was using

Code

mkdir /media/rar2fs
rar2fs -o allow_other --seek-length=0 /<dir containing rar files> /media/rar2fs

gomez · February 5, 2019 at 10:10 AM

Quote from CvH

Index of /addons/9.0/fs-tools/

pls have a try

Thanks for the addon. As Kodi 18 & LobreElec 9 does not play rar files (i already tested GitHub - xbmc/vfs.rar: RAR VFS addon for Kodi) i tried your addon. Unfortunaly it wont work:

Code

11:04:12.179 T:139901954431104  NOTICE: VideoPlayer::OpenFile: rar://smb%3a%2f%2fBERT103%2fdata-read%2fMovies%2ftest%2test.rar/test.mkv
11:04:12.184 T:139900648752896  NOTICE: Creating InputStream
11:04:14.580 T:139900648752896 WARNING: CreateLoader - unsupported protocol(rar) in rar://smb%3a%2f%2fBERT103%2fdata-read%2fMovies%2ftest%2test.rar/test.mkv
11:04:14.580 T:139900648752896   ERROR: CVideoPlayer::OpenInputStream - error opening [rar://smb%3a%2f%2fBERT103%2fdata-read%2fMovies%2ftest%2test.rar/test.mkv]
11:04:14.580 T:139900648752896  NOTICE: CVideoPlayer::OnExit()
11:04:15.083 T:139901954431104  NOTICE: CVideoPlayer::CloseFile()
11:04:15.083 T:139901954431104  NOTICE: VideoPlayer: waiting for threads to exit
11:04:15.083 T:139901954431104  NOTICE: VideoPlayer: finished waiting

Some have a tip or can help?

**vpeter** · February 5, 2019 at 12:54 PM

Kodi supports 2 archive addons: RAR Archive Support and Archive support. Maybe both needs to be enabled?

gomez · February 5, 2019 at 4:06 PM

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Kodi supports 2 archive addons: RAR Archive Support and Archive support. Maybe both needs to be enabled?

Looks like archive support is the way to go. See here Addon seems to compete with vfs.libarchive · Issue #29 · xbmc/vfs.rar · GitHub

Quote from CvH

Index of /addons/9.0/fs-tools/

pls have a try

So, this addon solves another problem?

gomez · February 5, 2019 at 4:20 PM

Solved it. Only using vfs.libarchive and doing a reboot (!).