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VobSub, FFDShow unRARing error

Discussion in 'Subtitle help' started by jimmydean, Nov 18, 2006.

  1. jimmydean

    jimmydean Member

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    I've searched for other solutions to the same problem and didn't see anything. My apologies if this is a repeat question.

    I am running VobSub 2.23 and FFDSHOW 529 on my system. When I play back an Xvid avi with external RARed subtitles (I've tried it in Media Player Classic 6.4.9.0 and Windows Media Player 10), I get the following error from either player.

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    In FFDSHOW, I have subtitles enabled and VobSub enabled. The movie/subtitles were generated with AutoGK. I know the subtitles work because they played back with VobSub (same version) and the Xvid codec in the past. I would like to leave VobSub installed, since I use it frequently in conjunction with AutoGK.

    AVI's with the same setup as above, but without external subs, play back just fine. I am convinced this has something to do with un-RARing the subs as FFDSHOW hands them off to VobSub.

    Also, I have WinRAR installed on this machine. I don't believe this has to do with a missing/corrupted UNRAR.DLL because I've tried fresh installs. A search of my C drive for UNRAR.DLL returns the following:

    C:\Program Files\ffdshow\ff_unrar.dll
    C:\WINDOWS\system32\unrar.dll

    Does anyone have any suggestions about how to fix this? They would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
     
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    I have exactly the same problem! If anyone knows a fix, please tell us. :)
     
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    I found a solution!

    Download UnRAR.dll from here:
    http://www.rarlab.com/rar_add.htm

    Then extract just unrar.dll (and maybe unrar.lib too if you want) to Windows/System32 (replace the one that is there if you want, or rename it) - and it should work!

    Works for me, anyway.
     
  4. jimmydean

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    Did you have WinRAR installed before? I wonder if there is an UnRAR.DLL supplied with WinRAR that is incompatible with FFDSHOW's decompressing of the external subtitles.

    Thanks for sharing your solution.
     
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    Confirmed. The fresh UnRAR.DLL works for me also. Perhaps this fix is only needed when an older version of WinRAR is installed on the system before FFDSHOW is installed.
     

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