VLC multi-part rar support is BROKEN in 2.0 and 2.0.1

[koksalt]

Seems like the support for playing multi-part/spanned archives is broken in VLC 2.0. It was working (quite) fine in version 1.11.X.

It plays the first file of the archvie ( .rar) , but it doesn't contniue to .r00, r01 ... etc It just stops. Doesn't matter if its an avi or mkv file and all files are uncompressed.

I am using windows 7 64 bit, but I have the same problem on OSX 10.7. So it seems to be platform independent.

I have also tried the latest nightly of 2.1 and it has the same problem

Update: Still broken i 2.0.1 Now it stops later on, always at the same time, but different times in different videos. One movie stops at X minutes, another stops at Y minutes.
If you have this problem please confirm it in thread and tell what version operative system you are using.

Update: Seems to be fixed for the next release of VLC .

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

OK.

[Sid32]

Been running the nightlies and now 2.0.1 - ubuntu 11.10 and multi-part rar support is not working for me either. Works fine in old 1.11 builds...

[koksalt]

There is an ticket on the bug tracker now
https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/6033

It says Platform(s): MacOS, but its should be all. Maybe someone could update this so that it gets more attention from the devs.

[rav3nous]

Same problem on Windows. Unlike the ticket, for me on Windows 7 X64, it does not indicate the correct duration. Only the duration of the first rar.

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

All in mkvs?

[ms-7]

Also Same Problem with MKV multipart .001 files !!!
myvideo.mkv.001
myvideo.mkv.002
myvideo.mkv.003
and so on...

VLC 2.0 ONLY playing .001 file duration while Previous Version of VLC 1.xx plays automatically the other files (.002 , .003)

Please Fix this Prob in Newer Version VERY SOON.

[ktopaz]

same issue with rar files here (mostly .avi archived in them) win 7 32 bit
when i drag the first .rar file onto vlc player, it pops up a window saying "Broken or missing AVI Index"
I hit the "Build index then play" button, and it plays and shows the duration of only the first rar.
(vlc 1.0 plays the same archive without any issues)

is there any information i can extract that might help resolving this problem faster?

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

There is a bug on that. We hope to fix in 2.0.1

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

This is fixed for 2.0.1

[ms-7]

This is fixed for 2.0.1

Thank You very much !!
When will 2.0.1 will be Released ?

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

next week.

[koksalt]

This is fixed for 2.0.1

Thank you, it seems to be fixed, but it's not really. Now it doesn't stop after the first rar, so that is good. Now it stops later on, always at the same time, but different times in different videos. One movie stops at 7 minutes, another stops at 51 minutes. I have only seen it with mkv files, but i don't have any large packaged avi files.

I know that is there is no errors in rar packaging because the videos plays completely with MPC and RARFileSource filter.

With logger i get the following error when the movie stops

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[000000000048cdc8] main playlist: stopping playback [0000000002268d08] mkv demux error: cannot load some cues/chapters/tags etc. (broken seekhead or file) [00000000048cdd68] dts decoder: DTS channels:6 samplerate:48000 bitrate:1536000 Stream with high frequencies VQ coding MKV/Ebml Parser: m_el[mi_level] == NULL MKV/Ebml Parser: Up cannot escape itself

If I re-compress the movies with smaller or larger rar-splits, it still stops at the same time.

If I start the same mkv movie uncompressed, I got the same errors when open the video in the beginning. But it doesnt stop.

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[0000000004a1e798] mkv demux error: cannot load some cues/chapters/tags etc. (broken seekhead or file) [00000000022ea298] dts decoder: DTS channels:6 samplerate:48000 bitrate:1536000 Stream with high frequencies VQ coding MKV/Ebml Parser: m_el[mi_level] == NULL MKV/Ebml Parser: Up cannot escape itself

Seems like its more fault sensitive when playing from rars. But I don't recognize this behavior from VLC 1.X

Tested with nightly 2.1 and 2.01 as of today @ win7 64bit.

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

This is a mkv bug, not a rar one then.

[TypX]

Can you share the whole verbose logs?

[koksalt]

Can you share the whole verbose logs?

Sure, I love to help

Here is verbose logs of 5 videos, 3 which stops and 2 that don't stops (for comparison).

Note1. The movie always stops at the same time and it doesn't matter if seeking before or not.
Note2. It doesn't matter if I disable video output or audio output. It still stops.
Note3. All videos are mkvs and plays good with MPC and RARFileSource or uncompressed.
Note4. GPU acceleration was enabled during the logs but I got the same result when its was disabled.

Video 1.
Open, plays ok-->then I jump to 55min, still plays ok-> Stops @ 57min
Log: http://pastebin.com/MUPAfhaE

Video 2.
Open, plays ok--> then I jump to 9:11min, still plays ok -> stops at 9min30s
Log: http://pastebin.com/CLaXeKzh

Video 3.
Open, plays ok, stops at 6:37
Log: http://pastebin.com/5GU5u8Ye

4. For comparison: These two works good, (although a got some other errors on with second one, but it doesnt stop)

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http://pastebin.com/65aYBrj9 http://pastebin.com/q1C91f8z

VLC version used: vlc-2.1.0-git-20120301-0403
System: Windows 7 Pro sp1 64 bit

[punkso]

I have the same exact problem that koksalt described.

I would like to add that this problem only occurs (at least for me) when attempting to play back archives which have been created using RAR-archiving v2.9. When the older archiving from RAR version 2.0 is used, there is no problem. As we know, RAR v2.9 introduced a new method of archive creation.

The newly released official VLC v2.0.1 gives this error message twice when attempting to play back an examplary archive consisting of .rar + .r00-.r92 (sorry, it's in German language):

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Einlesen der Datei fehlgeschlagen: VLC konnte die Datei "C:\xyz\xyz.r93" nicht lesen. (%m)

Notice how it complains that file .r93 was not found even though the archive is complete (unrars fine) and only goes up to .r92 (i.e. VLC expects more files than there actually are)!

Also the seeking in rared videos is considerably slower, if the archive was created using RAR v2.9.

I think I read somewhere that the header structure was changed for RAR v2.9, so my (uneducated) guess would be, that VLC misinterprets the header and expects more files than there are which in turn possibly breaks the seeking.

Also I would like to add that I tried to play back such RAR v2.9-archives using older versions of VLC before and always failed. Only VLC 2.0/2.0.1 enabled the playback of such files (to my knowledge), even though it still is buggy.

[koksalt]

I have the same exact problem that koksalt described.

I would like to add that this problem only occurs (at least for me) when attempting to play back archives which have been created using RAR-archiving v2.9. When the older archiving from RAR version 2.0 is used, there is no problem. As we know, RAR v2.9 introduced a new method of archive creation.

The newly released official VLC v2.0.1 gives this error message twice when attempting to play back an examplary archive consisting of .rar + .r00-.r92 (sorry, it's in German language):

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Einlesen der Datei fehlgeschlagen: VLC konnte die Datei "C:\xyz\xyz.r93" nicht lesen. (%m)

Notice how it complains that file .r93 was not found even though the archive is complete (unrars fine) and only goes up to .r92 (i.e. VLC expects more files than there actually are)!
Also the seeking in rared videos is considerably slower, if the archive was created using RAR v2.9.
I think I read somewhere that the header structure was changed for RAR v2.9, so my (uneducated) guess would be, that VLC misinterprets the header and expects more files than there are which in turn possibly breaks the seeking.
Also I would like to add that I tried to play back such RAR v2.9-archives using older versions of VLC before and always failed. Only VLC 2.0/2.0.1 enabled the playback of such files (to my knowledge), even though it still is buggy.

I'm not sure that is the same problem. This thread is about a bug that was introduced in VLC v 2.0. First playback stopped after the first rar, then it was partitally fixed in the alfa and still broken 2.01. What happens is that it stops later on, always at the same time, but different times in different videos. One movie stops at 7 minutes, another stops at 51 minutes, etc. (It doesnt matter if the video was compressed with winrar 2.0 or 2.9)

But yes, On some vidoes I have got the the error you are talking about, it generates the same message, but the moive plays along fine.

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File reading failed: VLC could not open the file "E:\Movie\The.Ghost.Writer.2010.1080p.BluRay.X264-AMIABLE\tgwrit.1080p-amb.r93". (%m)

The weird thing is that only uncompressed archives uses version RAR 2.0, an archive created with version RAR 2.9 means that it was compressed (which is not supported by VLC)...
I'm not able to create a uncompressed rar-archive (store option) other than RAR 2.0 (Using WinRAR 4.11).. I think uncompressed (store option) rar-archives with 2.9 is produced from a buggy and older version of WinRAR.

[koksalt]

Great news!

Tried the latest nighly today (vlc-2.1.0-git-20120501-0404) and this bug seems to fixed now!

Thanks!

[punkso]

Indeed, the problem seems to fixed now (apart from the odd error message about "missing rar-files" which are in fact not missing). Thanks a lot!

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

Can you try vlc-2.1.0-20120504 as soon it is out ? please? please?
This will allow me to backport the fixes...

[koksalt]

Can you try vlc-2.1.0-20120504 as soon it is out ? please? please?
This will allow me to backport the fixes...

Sure, I will try it tomorrow.

[koksalt]

vlc-2.1.0-git-20120504-0404-win64 Works
vlc-2.1.0-git-20120504-0008-win32 Works

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

Cool!
Will be in 2.0.2!