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This thread is awesome. If you've posted something helpful in this thread, you're awesome. I could not be more glad I graduated to usenet from torrents. That out of the way- anyone care to speculate on the impact SOPA potentially could have on usenet? The actual, likely effect?
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SOPA/PIPA would almost certainly kill Usenet service dead. Right now the only reason the US-based companies are still afloat is by virtue of the DMCA complaint/removal process. SOPA kills that and says you can litigate/defund first, ask questions later. So that kills US service. Foreign service would be killed by simply branding any foreign Usenet host to be a "Rogue Site". It would likely also be open season on any indexing site, domestic or foreign. Would Usenet itself live on? Probably, but it wouldn't be anything like it is today. Just like the Web.
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Jan 1, 2012 01:30
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How exactly can SOPA/PIPA kill Usenet? Can you Yanks really just shut down the servers? Or is it some sort of DNS block (which is easily bypassed)?
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Jan 1, 2012 01:51
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Odette posted:How exactly can SOPA/PIPA kill Usenet? Can you Yanks really just shut down the servers? Or is it some sort of DNS block (which is easily bypassed)? Imagine some of the smaller companies or US based companies going bankrupt/losing 90% of their customer base overnight because Sony wants it so? Pretty sure circumvention of DNS block in itself is a criminal charge, and assisting in circumvention in any way is just as illegal
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Jan 1, 2012 01:52
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Alternate DNS providers are "illegal" ? Jesus Christ. Don't these companies just run out of the Caymans anyway?
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Jan 1, 2012 02:21
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Alternate DNS servers are in no way illegal. OpenDNS, Google's DNS, etc, wouldn't exist if that were the case. You can most certainly choose which DNS servers you want to use. At least right now; not sure how SOPA or whatever changes that.
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Jan 1, 2012 03:04
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Galg posted:Alternate DNS servers are in no way illegal. OpenDNS, Google's DNS, etc, wouldn't exist if that were the case. You can most certainly choose which DNS servers you want to use. At least right now; not sure how SOPA or whatever changes that. Worst case we end up using IP addresses, and all they do is end up blocking perfectly legal content and make it harder to start up. The entire idea is bullshit but this is off topic. Basically though usenet wont die because of it. The internet is not just port 80 even though most people only experience it as that. Even if they could block the IPs people would find ways around it and in the end all it will do is harm the innocent and give leverage to implement even more insane laws. If they somehow ban alternate DNS I'm going to be upset google's DNS server is 8.8.8.8 and I love to use it as a test if I think the problem is DNS. (its my backup DNS at home because if the ISP DNS shits the bed normally their backup does too)
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Jan 1, 2012 03:36
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Be realistic, people. If any site gets blocked from the root DNS, that site can safely be considered dead unless it's already a super-secretive organization. If users who are on alternative DNS are the only ones left, then bam, overnight you're reaching only a tiny fraction of your previous userbase. Add all the extra legal exposure SOPA brings to the table and pretty much everything will be Done.Odette posted:Don't these companies just run out of the Caymans anyway? inpheaux fucked around with this message at 04:42 on Jan 1, 2012 |
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Jan 1, 2012 04:39
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What's the current probability that SOPA and it's cousin will pass? It seems like the big name supporters are slowly turning their backs on it.
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Jan 1, 2012 04:42
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Vykk.Draygo posted:What's the current probability that SOPA and it's cousin will pass? It seems like the big name supporters are slowly turning their backs on it. We'll know soon, though! It's back on the table in January. Edit: We're having the wrong discussion, though. Should SOPA become law, systematic destruction of Usenet is the least of our problems. inpheaux fucked around with this message at 04:49 on Jan 1, 2012 |
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Jan 1, 2012 04:45
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edit: Never mind. I wrote a SABnzbd post-processing script to move the file to the watched folder. It's called after the rename so it works fine. I'm working on getting Sick Beard, SABnzbd, and Magic Media Marker (MMM) working together. Right now, Sick Beard does its thing, hands off to SABnzbd via the API, then SABnzbd saves & renames the completed download in MMM's watched folder for converting, tagging, and adding to iTunes. I've just about got it set up, but there's one last problem. When SABnzbd sorts and renames a file, it seems like it sorts first and renames second. So it moves the completed file to MMM's watched folder which triggers MMM. Then it renames the file which triggers MMM again. Basically MMM calls HandBrake twice on every download. I think I have everything in SABnzbd set up correctly regarding folders, categories, and sorting. I have a temp folder, a completed download folder, a category that just leaves the download in the completed folder, and I've enabled TV Sorting into MMM's watched directory. I just wanted to make sure I'm not missing anything or doing something stupid before I do some scripting to fix the holes in the workflow. Also thanks for an awesome thread. Super helpful in getting this all running. Soup in a Bag fucked around with this message at 22:37 on Jan 1, 2012 |
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Jan 1, 2012 16:38
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Anyone know if subtitle support will ever be added into the main sickbeard branch? From doing a quick google it looks like there is support but not on the main branch.
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Jan 2, 2012 02:04
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A minor but annoying problem: I'm using sabnzbd in my XBMC-Live (the xbmcfreak version, I believe) setup on my Revo, but no matter how many times I change the port both in the config section and in every config file I can find, it keeps changing back to 9999 when I reboot the box. Can anyone think of a reason why it keeps resetting? When I change it in the Config, I can see the change it makes to the file in my ~/.sabnzbd folder, or whatever it's called (Can't check now, I'm in work). Thanks.
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Jan 5, 2012 12:39
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I just set up sabnzbd and sickbeard on a ubuntu box, but for some reason sab won't kick off the sabtosickbeard.py script when it finishes a download. Sickbeard kicks off the downloads just fine, and if I do manual post-processing on my sab download dir it works. Am I still supposed to fill in the "TV Download Dir" box in sickbeard even if I am using that post-processing script? In sabnzbd the default post-processing is +Delete with no script, TV category script is set to sabtosickbeard.py, and I configured autoprocesstv.cfg. None of my sab logs show anything related to post-processing at all.
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Jan 6, 2012 16:48
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astr0man posted:I just set up sabnzbd and sickbeard on a ubuntu box, but for some reason sab won't kick off the sabtosickbeard.py script when it finishes a download. Sickbeard kicks off the downloads just fine, and if I do manual post-processing on my sab download dir it works. Am I still supposed to fill in the "TV Download Dir" box in sickbeard even if I am using that post-processing script? Did you edit sabtosickbeard.py? I think you have to add your sab host in there, or something along those lines.
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Jan 6, 2012 17:50
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I ended up just restarting sab and sickbeard and it magically works now.
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Jan 7, 2012 18:27
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Has anyone had issues with CouchPotato downloading in various languages other than English? It seems that about 75% of my downloads are in German or othwerwise. I've toggled "restrict to English" on for nzbmatrix provider, however I also have newzbin and nzb.su set up. Anyone got any ideas?
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Jan 8, 2012 00:46
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Obviously Erratic posted:Has anyone had issues with CouchPotato downloading in various languages other than English? It seems that about 75% of my downloads are in German or othwerwise. In this box:  Put this, customized to your needs: subpack,nlsub,swesub,subbed,subs,dirfix,samplefix,nfofix,dvdextras,sample,extras,special,dubbed,german,french,core2hd,3DBD,hdchina,dvd9,avchd,hdtv
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Jan 8, 2012 02:19
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Thermopyle posted:In this box: Awesome, seems so obvious! Thanks a lot!
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Jan 8, 2012 03:24
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Can I copy out the NZBs from somewhere if I have downloads paused in my SAB queue? I've got some big files sitting in there and a friend with loads of spare bandwidth, and I'd like to send him the NZBs rather than go download them again. I mean, it's not like I can't grab them again, but it would save me some time if they are sitting in a folder somewhere. If it matters, I have SAB set up to watch my download folder for incoming NZBs and it grabs them and puts them in the queue, but I don't know where they go at that point.
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I think your "temporary download folder" should have them all compressed such as: D:\incomplete\Linux.distro.2012.01.08\_ADMIN_\Linux.distro.2012.01.08.nzb.gz "download folder" \ job_name \ _ADMIN_ \ job_name.nzb.gz If you want to finish a queue job already in progress on another machine, you should be able to move the whole directory over to the temporary download folder of the other SAB install as an orphaned job, then add it to the queue through Status > Queue Repair. gary oldmans diary fucked around with this message at 12:00 on Jan 8, 2012 |
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Jan 8, 2012 11:55
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Just go to Config -> Folders and read the .nzb Backup Folder thing.
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Jan 8, 2012 14:32
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Hogburto posted:I think your "temporary download folder" should have them all compressed such as: Yep, there they are, thanks. My friend has a unix box somewhere and doesn't have SAB on it, just some other command-line NZB tool, so passing him the NZBs works nice and easy. td4guy posted:Just go to Config -> Folders and read the .nzb Backup Folder thing. That box is blank, and the default base folder listed has no NZBs in it. I assume I'd have to put in an entry for it to copy data to that folder? The reply above works though. Thanks anyway.
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Jan 8, 2012 14:48
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Gromit posted:Yep, there they are, thanks.
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Jan 8, 2012 18:41
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Not sure how close I'm cutting it here, but how good a job does NZB Matrix or nzb.su do in indexing ebooks? Is there a more specific site/usenet provider I could look into?
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Jan 9, 2012 00:05
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I prefer search sites to indexes unless I'm setting up automated downloads. Mysterbin and Binsearch are fine.
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I have an RSS feed that I've created from NZB.su and want the nzb's that I get from that feed to be auto-sorted using the Categories/Sorting features in SABnzbd. I assume there's a way to get this sorted correctly, but I'm not seeing the button or setting that allows me to do that. Any ideas?
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Jan 12, 2012 02:54
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Does SABnzbd use multiple backup servers if you have them enabled? I'm on usenetserver with a blocknews backup account, which was just fine until I've had multiple downloads failing due to a lack of repair blocks in the past few weeks. I was thinking of buying an astraweb block account but only if it'd make a difference.
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Jan 12, 2012 18:10
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Yes, it will utilize multi-backup/fill servers. Maybe it will make a difference. If you are suffering from a DCMA takedown, if they've hit all the major networks with enough info to prevent it from working, it won't really matter if you have 483 backup servers.  Primary -> Free -> Block
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A slightly related question to the post above: I have one of those free xsusenet accounts and my warning log keeps filling up with errors (too many connection, timeouts etc.) I have it marked as optional, is there a way to say "ignore all errors from this server because it's a poo poo free service?". I have it set to only a single connection.
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Jan 13, 2012 01:57
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hmm. Seems like there is something up with your ISP/SABnzbd or something playing games - I have the following settings and don't get any of these problems.
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Is sickbeard smart enough to not try and digest a file while it's still being copied into TV Download Dir?
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FISHMANPET posted:Is sickbeard smart enough to not try and digest a file while it's still being copied into TV Download Dir? I've only seen sickbeard as a post-processing script or as a manual processing option, so yes.
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The Modern Leper posted:I've only seen sickbeard as a post-processing script or as a manual processing option, so yes. No, you can set it to just watch a directory without a script being run or manually processing it.
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FISHMANPET posted:No, you can set it to just watch a directory without a script being run or manually processing it. If you mean the blackhole functionality then I'm sure you'll be fine. I don't use it personally but I would imagine it would just get a write error if it tried to move a file that was already in use and pick it up on the next scan. I think post-processing is a better solution personally though.
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No, I'm talking about Post Processing. I have a TV Download Dir set, and I'm using Scan and Process . My question: if something is being copied into the folder when Sickbeard does it's Scan and Process, is it smart enough to not try and copy an incomplete file into my final TV destination?
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FISHMANPET posted:My question: if something is being copied into the folder when Sickbeard does it's Scan and Process, is it smart enough to not try and copy an incomplete file into my final TV destination? I can't tell you for certain, but anecdotally I have been using this setup for about a year and have had no problems.
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I've seen a lot of poorly encoded videos. I've seen many more using an encoding algorithm that while it doesn't look bad, is just terribly inefficient (I'm looking at you xviD). If I'm not into the 'OMG OSS  .' what's the harm in transcoding these in to h264? (despite the really minor drop in quality of copying the copy) It seems that handbrake Standard does a much better job than any xviD's I see that come out of the 'scene' and I'm a little shocked that it's not the standard.Does anyone have any further insight into this? I'd even start trying to grab HD and transcode to 480p if that made sense as it would be smaller and look better than (much of) the SD stuff out there now.
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I think it's tradition, the same reason that a half hour episode is 175 MB and an hour episode is 350 MB, to fit two hours of video on a CD to make a VCD.
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xvid plays on many old devices and there's no real demand for a superior codec for low resolution video.
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