[cyriltra]

Hello,

From what i've understood from various threads, it seems xbmc.extract does not work anymore for .rar in Kodi 18. Instead, we have to use external libraries (my addon -> Virtual Filesystems) vfs.rar (with rar://) or vfs.libarchive (archive://)
 

• When I enable vfs.libarchive (and disable vfs.rar) and use below code:
  

python:


__temp__ = '/storage/.kodi/userdata/addon_data/service.subtitles.zimuku/temp'

tempfile = '/storage/.kodi/userdata/addon_data/service.subtitles.zimuku/temp/subtitles.rar'

path = urllib.quote_plus(tempfile)

(dirs, files) = xbmcvfs.listdir('archive://%s' % (path))

for file in files:

  src = 'archive://' + path + '/' + file

  dest = os.path.join(__temp__, file)

xbmcvfs.copy(src, dest)

i got the following error:
ERROR: GetDirectory - Error getting archive://%2fstorage%2f.kodi%2fuserdata%2faddon_data%2fservice.subtitles.zimuku%2ftemp%2fsubtitles.rar/
But the rar file exists and the path is correct !

 

• Now, when I enable vfs.rar (and disable vfs.libarchive) and use below code:
  

python:


__temp__ = '/storage/.kodi/userdata/addon_data/service.subtitles.zimuku/temp'

tempfile = '/storage/.kodi/userdata/addon_data/service.subtitles.zimuku/temp/subtitles.rar'

path = urllib.quote_plus(tempfile)

(dirs, files) = xbmcvfs.listdir('rar://%s' % (path))

for file in files:

  src = 'rar://' + path + '/' + file

  dest = os.path.join(__temp__, file)

xbmcvfs.copy(src, dest)

the script finds the .rar and xbmcvfs.listdir finds the subtitle inside it, but xbmcvfs.copy does not "extract" the subtitle file. Instead i got below error:
ERROR: AddOnLog: RAR archive support: filerar::open failed to open file in cache: special://temp/rarfolderWKscUK/subtitle_file.ass

When I look in the folder mentioned: "/storage/.kodi/temp/rarfolderWKscUK/", it is actually empty.
One more thing I do not understand is why it is using a temp folder, while I specified a "dest" folder ?!?

So basically non of vfs.rar or vfs.libarchive seem to work so far for me in Kodi 18 :/

is anyone else having issues to extract subtitles from a RAR archive with Kodi 18 ?
(i'm using CoreElec 8.99.2)

Thank you

[cyriltra]

After a reboot, I noticed the combination of vfs.rar enable + rar:// was actually working: I was able to extract a rar file and access subtitles.
However, when I wanted to watch another movie with subtitles, the rar:// was extracting the file but provides the previous subtitles, not the one from the archive !!
Even if I manually delete the temp folder, xbmcvfs.copy will still provide the previous subtitles files...
If I reboot, then it works for 1 movie, then it stops working.

I think this is related to some cache issue / bug, not sure if it's in Kodi 18, CoreElec or vfs.rar or my machine.....

I will try to investigate caching mechanism of Kodi

[cyriltra]

I tried Kodi with my addon on Mac and have the exact same issue so far.

[xdsnet]

Mod edit: English only, please - machine translation below. It triggers our spam filters otherwise, and we don't want to accidentally ban you

Because you build zimuku, guess you will speak Chinese
Python does not have a built-in module to extract rar, so you need external tools to assist in decompression, 7z is also such a problem.

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因为你建立zimuku，猜你会中文
python没有内置模块可以解压rar吧，所以需要外部工具来辅助解压，7z的也是这样的问题。

[Klojum]

因为

You already posted on this forum before, in English.
If you start spamming in an oriental language, your stay here will be shortened very quickly.

[edjalmo]

@cyriltra
I, and all people that use this add-on, are having this same issue with Legendas.TV add-on (https://kodi.wiki/view/Add-on:Legendas.TV https://github.com/gfjardim/service.subt...legendastv).
Sometimes the add-on work, sometimes don't. Please, if you solve this problem share!

[cyriltra]

@cyriltra
I, and all people that use this add-on, are having this same issue with Legendas.TV add-on (https://kodi.wiki/view/Add-on:Legendas.TV https://github.com/gfjardim/service.subt...legendastv).
Sometimes the add-on work, sometimes don't. Please, if you solve this problem share!

Hi,

yes I solved that issue by creating my own subtitles service scrapper and the trick, as suggested by xdsnet is to use an external program.
So I've installed the following addons:
- System Tools (it will install unrar)
- Locale (it changes the charset of kodi from POSIX to utf8 if i'm correct)

then in my personal addon, i'm using these 3 lines to extract RAR archives:

python:
import subprocess

cmd = "unrar e {0} {1}/".format(filepath, dirpath) # filepath = /path/to/your/archive.rar and dirpath = /path/to/where/you/want/to/extract/

subprocess.call(cmd, shell=True)

This may not work on all platform (i'm on CoreElec)

for zip files, i'm using below command:

python:
xbmc.executebuiltin(('XBMC.Extract("{0}","{1}")'.format(filepath, dirpath,)), True) # filepath = /path/to/your/archive.zip and dirpath = /path/to/where/you/want/to/extract/

I hope kodi 19 with full support of utf8 (python 3) will no longer require such workaround

[edjalmo]

@cyriltra thank you for this!
I don't understand python. I asked to share with the dev of legendastv add-on.
But now another guy are fixing the add-on. Now it's working on Kodi 18.2, Windows version.
If you want take a look, this is the link: https://github.com/henricos/service.subt...legendastv