The new RARFileSource DirectShow filter.

[v0lt]

Do you plan to support RAR5 format?

[talcum]

Is there a way to use symbolic links to reference rar files in another directory? If I link to the first rar it is unable to find any of the other archives.

[.sk]

Using this is as an external filter in MPC-BE, what merit should be set for it?

To quote the user from another thread,

If you set RARFileSource to "prefer" then it works fine on rar files. But, if you play a non-rar file then the video will not play at all, it's blocked by RARFileSource because it's not a rar file. Is there any workaround to this problem besides going into the settings and enabling/disabling RARFileSource before every time you want to play a file?

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Edit: Never mind on the 1st question. I got it to work on both rar and non-rar by changing the merit around a bit.

I am asking here, for the future reference, as the said user didn't state the correct value and I don't know if he is still around.

Also to quote from the other places,

So I added an external filter with RAR File Source, which allows me to enable playback of .RAR files, but only if I set to prefer on it, which makes me get 2 error messages if I open non-rar files that I have to dismiss for it to start playback.

The errors are; "Incorrect RAR marker" and "No media files found in the archive" so obviously as I've specified it tries to open with RAR File Source first, and fallsback to LAV/madVR after trying that.

How do I make MPC-BE/Rar file source only open .rar files with RARFS and the rest with default LAV/madVR?