Compressed RAR files won't ask before they start to unpack.

[Sopor]

It seems that when a RAR archive is compressed Kodi will not ask if it should extract the file or not. It will start to extract it without asking. If i press on a compressed RAR archive (BluRay ISO file) it will extract the whole file to my Vero 4K. Both Vero and RPi have 100 mbit (older ones) and it won't even fit a full sized BD ISO that can be as big as 48GB. Even a DVD or mkv (4GB) will take forever to extract at 100 mbit.

Kodi 17.6 (and earlier as far as i can remember) will show a message and ask you if it should unpack big file.

I don't know if this is a vfs.rar issue or Kodi, but it really needs to be re-added, so the user can choose if it should unpack it or not.

[Sopor]

Update:
If the file is compressed it should not show the mkv file (this is to show that the file is not STORED). Instead the first RAR file should be shown (from Kodi 17.6):

As i mentioned before, it should ask if it should unpack it (from Kodi 17.6):

[AlwinEsch]

Thanks for report.
I know this problem, just didn't think about it anymore, will look the next time to find a solution there, problems with dialogs currently is to separate between user ask and background processes (e.g. the old issue after I added the password dialog, where showed 100... times dialog).

Will then look closely like Kodi 17.6, it did when RAR support was still in it.

[AlwinEsch]

About this becomes the dialog added here #92 and after them done also on Leia.

[Sopor]

@AlwinEsch There is still one issue with this Need to unpack big files. Continue? dialog. It will popup when i entering the folder, so i don't know if it is the video file or the subs file that is needed to be unpacked. It should tell me what kind of file it is about to unpack.

Here is the dialog in Kodi 18.8:

Here is the exact same directory but it is from Kodi 17.8:

As you can see it shows what kind of file it is (in this case a sub file) and then i know this is a subtitle file and i can press yes to unpack it.

I took an mkv file and use compression on it and in Kodi 17.8 it will show up as an mkv file:

But in Kodi 18.8 it will show the rar file in the dialog even if it is the mkv file i try to run:

[ZevZev]

Same issue for me in Kodi v19 with vfs.rar v4.0 - on Windows 10. I tried to use libarchive as a replacement - but that never worked well for me - neither in Kodi 18 or now in 19. With libarchive installed scanning my library takes forever - and, I can't seem to play videos in RAR files with it. It only seems to work with vfs.rar for me.