Recalbox 7.2.2 with Kodi v18.9 - video playback issues

[Anders Northbane]

Hi,
first of all, big thank you for the Recalbox v7.x version, it surely is an emulator dream come true in so many aspects.

However, there is still an issue with the included version of Kodi, you forgot to build it with virtual filesystem support, aka VFS so content in .rar format isn't possible to either scan nor play. Can you please update that in the coming version of Recalbox, or give me a hand so I can do it myself. This issue was reported before. Some material is just rar:ed, not for compression but for releasing.
Using x64 version of Recalbox 7.2.2.

If not possible to include this in your own version, can you please give me a tutorial on how to build/compile my own Recalbox so I can include that by myself? Would be very appreciated.

Thank you in advance!

(was posted in general before, but this category I guess is better suited)

[Zing]

@anders-northbane

If not possible to include this in your own version, can you please give me a tutorial on how to build/compile my own Recalbox so I can include that by myself? Would be very appreciated.

Recalbox does not allow an ordinary user to install anything, this goes against the idea of the project.

But, as you are interested, as Recalbox has open source code, you can try to do this yourself, in the repository there are instructions for this:
https://gitlab.com/recalbox/recalbox

Please understand that the forum does not provide this kind of support, the forum is meant to support regular users with problems with Recalbox (and I wouldn't even be able to support it, I'm not a developer, and the developer team is small) .

[Anders Northbane]

@zing
yeah, sorry for posting in the other wrong section earlier.

Hm, this seems kinda overwhelming, couldn't see where I could change Kodi stuff. But then again, I've never compiled a whole distro before, so could obviously be missing something.

Would it be possible for you to add support for VFS in your coming Recalbox update? The package that needs to be included is kodi-vfs-rar for this to work.

[Zing]

@anders-northbane

Would it be possible for you to add support for VFS in your coming Recalbox update? The package that needs to be included is kodi-vfs-rar for this to work.

Sorry, I'm not a developer and I don't know if this is possible.

I recommend that you check the next version's changelog if any such changes are already scheduled (if you have one, just wait for the next version to be released - there is no scheduled date):
https://gitlab.com/recalbox/recalbox/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md

You can check in the issues if there is already an issue open with this request, if there is, comment it, if not, you can open an issue requesting this inclusion:
https://gitlab.com/recalbox/recalbox/-/issues