Hello all,
I know this has been asked in the past already a bunch of times, but I was wondering why Plex still does not support .RAR and ISO file opening as XBMC does.
This is the only major set back that Plex has and for a lot of people the main reason they cannot switch from XBMC to plex.
Yes, I know some of you don’t like RAR packages or ISO, but you forget that a lot of media still uses this and is being stored this way.
One of the main reasons I would need this aswell is that we have a HUGE server on the internet where everything is stored in .RAR archives under the movie name. Right now we open this directly from XBMC over the net and XBMC instantly plays the files (NFS).
Is there any possibility support for this will come back? and if not, why?
I’m sorry, there are no plans to support RAR at this point in time. Lots of discussion can be found in various forum posts, but generally speaking, we just don’t feel like the work would benefit the majority of our users, and we also think there are drawbacks to the format which don’t make it ideal for media analysis and playback.
A transparent filesystem layer implementation is a much more flexible approach, and the downsides to the approach just highlight the issues with RAR.
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