[noybman]

I'm the OP. Why don't you all read the whole thread? I discovered it only works with Rar Archive Support activated, not both, a year ago. Worked well on the Windows Kodi v18 beta a year ago and working on 18.2 now. Try again people.

[Written by my thumbs on a state-of-the-art Ericsson Hotline 450.] 

Good evening Snaah. I think you should take your own advice since you need it more than I do. At least you presumed I didn't read it, but clearly you did not. I have indeed read the entire thread. And, I've read what the maintainer of the addon said as well on other related threads. Your testing, and the testing others did in this thread had the most sense and apparent success. In fact, you said, "We should check that it works on other platforms....." -  guess what, it doesn't work on all of them it seems.

Regardless of what anyone else has said - I reported IN DETAIL what my experience is; hoping we could get a little farther. Clearly we have differences, perhaps specifically Windows 8.1 vs. Windows 10. That would suck if its the case (I have reasons to be on 8.1).

Spiff indicated the RAR support Addon is deprecated, so while it works for you and at least some others, for me, it literally does not, it does not play. ALSO, it does not even see *.ZIP. It plays ISO's, but Kodi crashes when the ISO is stopped.

So I guess at this point, I'm wondering 2 things - (1) is vfs rar support actually deprecated? because RAR is not the only archive type out there, so even if we get it working using VFS RAR, there are files it wont see. If it is deprecated, does vfs archive support need to be patched or does the core of Kodi as Spiff suggested. Is anyone looking into it (besides me? and I wont be solving it quickly lol)...

And - (2) Is anyone else still using Windows 8.1? If so.... is either plugin working for you

Thanks!!!

On the DLNA comment, I dont think DLNA content has ever worked in Kodi? It would be awesome if it did, but that would probaby belong in a new or other thread.  I'd like to get other input or movement on the OP thread topic