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I recently updated to Kodi and it will not recognize many of my folders in rar archives. I've searched the windows forums and none of the results show an answer to the problem i am having. It works fine with some rar files, for Movies like the Croods or The Iron Giant, but not others, like The Lego Movie. These all worked fine under the last stable version of XBMC so i know they are valid files that will play. Is there a specific plug-in that i need or some setting that i'm missing?
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I know i just posted this a few minutes ago, but it seems there is a bigger problem going on here. Specifically as it regards the Lego Movie...I've unpacked the RAR file, renamed the Movie folder, refreshed the library several times, and restarted the computer and Kodi will not add this movie to the library in any capacity. So i guess there are now two issues, one is that it still wont recognize any of the RAR files, but now i think that Kodi must not like legos, so why is the Lego Movie Specifically not playing?
Thanks for any help you can offer.
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moh86
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2018-02-19, 14:18
(This post was last modified: 2018-02-19, 14:19 by moh86.)
Hello I know this question is old but I have the same problem. Is there any solution already?
Some multiparted-rar Movies works but some not, why?
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jjd-uk
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No idea as I've never had one which does work.
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I have no solution but what's the benefit of storing movies inside RAR files?
I think all righthtinking people in this country are sick and tired of being told that ordinary, decent people are fed up in this country with being sick and tired.
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None. Video is by definition already in a compressed format, so when RAR is used, it's done with either minimal or no compression at all, just to hack large video files into small pieces, which can then be digested more easily via Internet.
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PatK
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" Kodi and it will not recognize many of my folders in rar archives " There is many iterations of RAR and some versions are not cross compatible and will run into problems from scanning to playing. Suggestion:-> de-archive and join pieces if needed in a more common supported Kodi format.
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Luke M
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Actually there is a benefit to wrapping a file in an archive format (not rar particularly): integrity checking.
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2018-02-20, 16:15
(This post was last modified: 2018-02-20, 16:15 by jjd-uk.)
Are you able to to open the rar file and unrar it outside of Kodi? as this will prove whether there's potentially an issue with the multipart rar file.
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moh86
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2018-02-20, 23:57
Alright, I will give it a try
