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EggWhite · 2009-03-09, 01:14

I am trying to build an app that uses the Web-API's to control XBMC.

However, I can't get it to play a file from a rar, outside a rar works fine. Here are the examples.
If I run the following command this is what is returned:

PHP Code:
http://192.168.1.168:8080/xbmcCmds/xbmcHttp?command=GetMediaLocation(video;smb://FILESERVER2/Large/Movie.rar) 

PHP Code:
<html>
<li>Movie.avi;rar://smb%3a%2f%2fFILESERVER2%2fLarge%2fMovie%2erar/Movie.avi;0
</html> 

Then to play the file I have tried the following and nothing seems to work.

PHP Code:
http://192.168.1.168:8080/xbmcCmds/xbmcHttp?command=PlayFile(rar://smb://FILESERVER2/Large/Movie.rar/Movie.avi)
http://192.168.1.168:8080/xbmcCmds/xbmcHttp?command=PlayFile(smb://FILESERVER2/Large/Movie.rar/Movie.avi) 

What am I doing wrong?

jmarshall · 2009-03-09, 02:47

You need to urlencode the rar file, in the same way as it was returned to you.

EggWhite · 2009-03-09, 23:41

jmarshall Wrote:You need to urlencode the rar file, in the same way as it was returned to you.

I also tried this, which is exactly what had returned, and I still don't get any results.

PHP Code:
http://192.168.1.168:8080/xbmcCmds/xbmcHttp?command=PlayFile(rar://smb%3a%2f%2fFILESERVER2%2fLarge%2fMovie.rar/Movie.avi) 

**spiff** · (This post was last modified: 2009-03-10, 23:17 by spiff.)

you're already passing a url - you need to encode twice (i.e. once more)