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Is there any plan to be able to play videos from .rar files, just like the desktop versions of vlc?

It would save _alot_ of time if I didn't have to unrar evvery video I wanted to put on my android device first. Great work so far

Did you try to open a rar file with VLC from astro, for example?

from root explorer there is no option to open a .rar file with vlc, but when trying to open as video with vlc nothing happens. am i doing something wrong?

Root Explorer can extract *.rar files, so you could just open/browse the *.rar file and extract the file. It will ask you if you want to go to the extract folder, then just open it with VLC from in Root Explorer.

It's not un-raring from within VLC, but at least it avoids un-raring on your PC.

Arite.

yeah i forgot root explorer can extract .rar files. i'll probably do that instead rather than on my laptop before transfer. i just thought it would be a nice feature if vlc could play direct from the .rar like on desktop versions. thanks for your input.

FYI VLC ("desktop" version) can only parse uncompressed RAR files as unrar isn't open source. It presumably is possible to compile the uncompressed RAR access in Android (not sure how much work that would be though).

Arite.