2010-11-23, 06:01
Rob Loach Wrote:Thoughts on 7-Zip support in XBMC Advanced Launcher itself? PyLZMA provides 7zip support to Python....Most of the emulators are already able to manage by themself compressed roms files (mostly under zip format). Or in other case some roms are already compressed (like bin files). I do not think we need to add a supplementary compression level or works with files formats (like 7-zip) that are not originally supported by the emulators.
I created an issue for 7zip support in XBMC Advanced Launcher. It doesn't work, but it is a start.
To be honest, I prefer to use decompressed roms instead of compressed ones. Yes, they takes surely more space of my hard drive, but on the other side they start really more quickly than the compressed ones. And I don't want to wait 10 or 20 seconds to play a game.
I have already works this several compression formats : zip, rar or 7z. 7z format give the best compression level but is also more slower to decompress than the zip format (for final archives size more or less similar).
Why do you want to add 7-zip support?