2017-11-07, 10:45
(2017-11-06, 22:51)dataghost1984 Wrote: What is the likelyhood of launching games off http/https I have a server I want to upload some of my collections to, I edited the json to an online link and it said rom not found. I would be interested in that. This runs amazing, absolutely love this addon!!!! Thank you so much!
I think that is not possible. Keep in mind that AEL is a launcher front-end and ultimately an external program is called (typically an emulator) to run your game. To the best of my knowledge, the only emulator that supports ROMs in remotes is Retroarch and it must be Samba (Windows network) remotes like \\Server_name\My_ROMs\. Artwork, however, may be in remotes since Kodi is able to handle URLs.
I think this is going to change in Kodi Leia and Kodi M****. Garbear is doing some work on the Retroarch cores to support the Kodi Virtual Filesystem (VFS). This means that Retroplayer (and Retroarch if Garbear code is merged into Retroarch main line) will be able to run ROMs in remotes like ssh://, http://, ftp://, sbm://, nfs://. AEL, of course, will support this feature but at the current development pace I estimate 1 or 2 years before it is completed.
