[tiben20]

Has anyone gotten rar files to play on the latest XBMC 12 builds? They don't work for me. Haven't tried any of the Gotham builds yet.

no it won't work, when the russian developer took over the project he modified the filter loading system and he didn't kept the file source filter i written to handle the compressed files. It's a big piece of work and i don't really want to do it once again.

Just a noob question:
What is the benefit of using the DSplayer build? What will be better?

It's just to use windows codec instead of built in codecs. If your not really familiar with what directshow can do you won't see much benefit