Native support for playing archives (.rar/.zip)

I know this sounds controversial, but even though this archive is a standard for "scene rules"-packaging of warez, .rar archives can be used for what it was intended as well, archiving. I have a lot of my family movies and photos compressed in these archives and it would be lovely to be able to play them through serviio.

Also, alot of none "pirated" movies are packed in various types of archives, .zip and .rar. Like alot of game-cast is distributed as rars.


Pros:
Serviio will truly play all your content natively. If it's on your computer, serviio will do the job as the easiest dlna server in the world.

Cons:
Serviio will play pirated movies without having to unarchive them.


The argument of .rar is only used by pirates seems kind of naive. I could say the same about xvid, matroska container and so on.

So what do you guys think?

[zip]

As I said, it will not be implemented, mainly because of the piracy side.

There are also technical obstacles, browsing speed, memory consumption and CPU load to name a few.

Fair enough,

was worth a try tho. Would make my whole life easier


I'm very eager for the new release with livestreaming.

keep up the good work.

This would be one amazing feature indeed. XBMC supports this feature and has a lot of happy users because of that. Too bad my favourite media server serviio won't include it
I keep my hopes up that someone will manage to convince zip about this though

[Cerberus]

I agree with zip feature is not needed and to risk with piracy stuff.

I understand zip position. But it would be a nice feature.
I keep all my media in zip/rar containers, so right now serviio isn't worth for me.

Hope he'll change his mind and make it xbmc compatible.