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FISHMANPET posted:I've got UsenetServer, and there's a file, and it was damanged, and needed 88 more parts. I got a Blocknews block account, and now I need 26 more parts. Any other recommended block providers? A little googling led me to NewsDemon, is that any good?
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inpheaux posted:NewsDemon is Highwinds, as is UsenetServer. If parts are missing on UNS, parts will be missing on NewsDemon. Try filling with a block from Astraweb. Well, got an Astraweb account, but I still need 26 repair blocks. I also have 20 files that aren't passing their SFV checks. Is there a page that explains exactly what this all means?
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Sfv checks the consistancy of the files. It's a reference file that measures every file in the set. Often theres also a set of parity (par) files that can not only check the set for damaged or missing files, but also repair and create them if needed. But each parity set only has a certain amount of blocks to use for repair and if a lot of files are broken or missing you're left to try a different newshost and hope they aren't hosed on that one too. Note that if parity files and sfv files are created from a set broken files then they will think the broken files are a-ok as it has no proper original. Though this isn't your case because a set of files that fails consistancy across 3 distinct usenet backbones is rare and odd. Try running an error check on your harddrive lately?
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For those of you using xsusenet and blocknews as supernews backups, do you have both enabled? Should they be in any particular order? I'd rather they pull the necessary blocks from the [free] xsusenet account first if possible.
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FISHMANPET posted:Well, got an Astraweb account, but I still need 26 repair blocks. I also have 20 files that aren't passing their SFV checks. Is there a page that explains exactly what this all means? Try searching for the filename of the file you're downloading on Binsearch or MysterBin (eg. ubuntu.linux.10.04.lts.r10, search for everything except the .r10 part). If it's an older release, there's always a chance someone reposted it.
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Hogburto posted:Avidemux is really good for merging avi files (which is pretty much always the 700MB filetype). If there are subtitles, you'll want to take care of them first, though. Newer XviD stuff is actually just standard MPEG-4 ASP (or in some weird cases, SP), which means you can just plop it in a MP4 container. To do this I wrote a script that uses MP4Box to demux the MPEG-4 tracks from the AVI files (and in most cases, fix them since AVI is a horrible lovely non-standard hack of a container that doesn't properly handle things like B-frames), and then concatenate them. To do this do code:code:This has the side benefit of being a standardized format, and if you've got an iPhone or iPad, will allow them to play these files normally without re-encoding anything (that is, if the audio track is AAC or MP3). e: I'd post the script I wrote for this since it goes farther and re-encodes the audio (ffmpeg/LAME MP3 for stereo and multichannel AAC on OS X only) and tags the titles and whatever, but it's bash so its only useful for Mac/Linux (or Windows with Interix I guess) Beeftweeter fucked around with this message at 01:24 on Jan 19, 2012 |
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I'd use it if you post it. I have a script that remuxes MKV -> MP4 with MP4, but I haven't gotten around to adding audio conversion yet and I don't have anything for AVI.
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Is there a way to export the NZB files in the queue? It looks like in the __ADMIN__ folder of the incomplete download, there's a <number>.nzb.gz, and that nzb seems to be the right nzb. Can I yank all those out to give to someone else to download?
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FISHMANPET posted:Is there a way to export the NZB files in the queue? I don't know how to do it in batches but that is the proper nzb file if you want to use it elsewhere.
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I changed my Sickbeard web_root, but forgot to change it in the autoproccesstv.cfg file, so I have a download that can't process because it's trying to load a URL that doesn't exist anymore. It's been doing this since last night, so I don't expect it to time out anytime soon. Is there a way I can get it to stop trying to run the script? I'd like to keep it in my history, but if deleting it from history is the only way to get it to stop, I can do that.
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Soup in a Bag posted:I'd use it if you post it. I have a script that remuxes MKV -> MP4 with MP4, but I haven't gotten around to adding audio conversion yet and I don't have anything for AVI. Sure, but there's a few requirements:
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Download: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8706979/makemp4 http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8706979/makemp4-pp do chmod +x on both files, then put makemp4 in /usr/local/bin and makemp4-pp in SABnzbd's scripts folder.
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) and outputs this to a CAF file since libsndfile doesn't support giving that a channel map (which is good because it'd be hosed up if ffmpeg/afconvert read it), and then converts this using afconvert on OS X or ffmpeg on whatever else. This means that converting a 5.1 track will temporarily take up about 1.4 GB per hour (so around 3 GB for a typical movie). It also means that this is going to take a while (about 10 minutes on a Q9550 @ 3.2GHz with a lovely 5400-7200 RPM variable speed HDD).
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mrmcd posted:Given everything that happened with Megaupload how worried should we be about Usernet? I think the Megavideo, Megaporn, etc. sites they operated as well are what made them big targets. They weren't as blatant as those Usenet providers that got shut down a while back, but they were still at best quite deep in to grey areas.
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mrmcd posted:Given everything that happened with Megaupload how worried should we be about Usernet? Not very worried. Megaupload's founder was a serial scammer/thief/has served time for credit card fraud and more -- very VERY long rapsheet, along with the fact that MU basically was a giant warez hosting operation. They didn't even PRETEND to be a tiny bit legitimate. Mediafire/Rapidshare/etc at least respond to takedown requests. I've seen straight up malware going ignored for over two years, much less warez. Impotence fucked around with this message at 16:27 on Jan 20, 2012 |
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wolrah posted:I think the Megavideo, Megaporn, etc. sites they operated as well are what made them big targets. They weren't as blatant as those Usenet providers that got shut down a while back, but they were still at best quite deep in to grey areas. Didn't they just shut down usenet.com which wasn't an actual provider?
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amf5 posted:Sure, but there's a few requirements:
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kri kri posted:Didn't they just shut down usenet.com which wasn't an actual provider? Don't forget Newzbin as well.
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Well, after messing around with MediaBrowser/WMC7 for the last few days, I'm back to XMBC/SickBeard/CoachPotato combo. Using different scrapers and doing metadata manually is a pain compared to the ease of those 3 programs together.
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mrmcd posted:It sounds like MU was pretty flagrant in only pretending to respond to DMCA takedowns, unlike most Usenet providers, but given the sheer volume of data going through usenet every day, it seems like once the **AAs decide to bring the hammer down they can pretty much claim any infringement is your fault and you intended to profit from it. "Having a bunch of pirated poo poo" isn't what killed MegaUpload. What killed MegaUpload was how they responded to DMCA complaints and, you know, little things like paying their users to upload pirated poo poo. kri kri posted:Didn't they just shut down usenet.com which wasn't an actual provider? FCKGW posted:Don't forget Newzbin as well.
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Roving Reporter posted:Well, after messing around with MediaBrowser/WMC7 for the last few days, I'm back to XMBC/SickBeard/CoachPotato combo.
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IDK, I've been having problems with metadata in general as of late. Hell, XMBC won't even read the NFOs from CouchPotato half the time(missing art or description), although it could be the fact that I'm using Eden. But if I clear out everything but the movie and let XBMC scrape everything, all is well. Maybe I'm doing something wrong with MediaBrowser or WMC7, but their built in scrapers suck compared to XBMC.
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Roving Reporter posted:IDK, I've been having problems with metadata in general as of late. Hell, XMBC won't even read the NFOs from CouchPotato half the time(missing art or description), although it could be the fact that I'm using Eden. But if I clear out everything but the movie and let XBMC scrape everything, all is well. I wrote the nfo generation code for Couchpotato. All that it contains is the IMDB URL for that movie so that xbmc scrapes the right movie. Maybe Eden doesn't support that anymore....
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Ingram posted:Sabnzb has been having a lot of issues lately renaming folders from UNPACK_x to the normal folder name. Seems to have started since I updated Sabnzb to the latest version. Anyone else getting this?
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I've been trying to set up SABnzbd/Sickbeard/Couch Potato on my Synology NAS, so I have a couple questions about configuring index sites: Do I need to set up these free indexing sites with each program or do I only need to set them up inside SABnzbd? Do the free indexers even work internally to SABnzbd (I don't want to have to use their web interfaces, just Sickbeard/Couch Potato) or do I have to pay for a NzbMatrix account to do this?
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Both CP and SB will need to be configured with your index of choice in order to search. SB includes its own indexer, which should be fine if you're just looking for new stuff.
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Either the quality of usenet is lower than I had thought, or blocknews is pretty much a terrible usenet provider. Either way, after having to slog through many failed downloads and random slowdowns of speed with blocknews, I really recommend that you guys stick with providers like supernews rather than block ones. I don't know why, but my experiene has been pretty terrible.
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Kontradaz posted:Either the quality of usenet is lower than I had thought, or blocknews is pretty much a terrible usenet provider. Either way, after having to slog through many failed downloads and random slowdowns of speed with blocknews, I really recommend that you guys stick with providers like supernews rather than block ones. I don't know why, but my experiene has been pretty terrible. Try supernews then and keep blocknews as a fill backup, it will be perfect.
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Kontradaz posted:Either the quality of usenet is lower than I had thought, or blocknews is pretty much a terrible usenet provider. Either way, after having to slog through many failed downloads and random slowdowns of speed with blocknews, I really recommend that you guys stick with providers like supernews rather than block ones. I don't know why, but my experiene has been pretty terrible.
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Well, you jerks can finally rub it in my face because I finally have a problem with Newsdemon. For the past week or two I've been getting max 2.5 megabytes per second and I just assumed that it was my internet connection. Speedtest shows a solid 30 megabit though so I tested with my backup blocknews account and sure enough, full speed. I'm hoping this is a temporary issue. If it's not, I still can't say that I'll jump to another provider.
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I assume I'm safe given the crowd I'm speaking to, but I hope you're all trying multiple ports before giving up and blaming the providers. I was definitely getting throttled by Virgin media on the lower ports I was offered by my provider. Makes me wonder what I could possibly do if the secondary ports were throttled too.
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sharktamer posted:I assume I'm safe given the crowd I'm speaking to, but I hope you're all trying multiple ports before giving up and blaming the providers. I was definitely getting throttled by Virgin media on the lower ports I was offered by my provider. Most providers will let you use 443, which is a port ISPs are generally not keen to throttle.
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Thermopyle posted:I wrote the nfo generation code for Couchpotato. All that it contains is the IMDB URL for that movie so that xbmc scrapes the right movie. I just checked this the other day and it certainly includes more than just the IMDB url. I think Eden handles nfo files differently though, my sickbeard nfo files don't let me select new fanart/posters after I import them into XBMC.
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kri kri posted:I just checked this the other day and it certainly includes more than just the IMDB url. Oh, well someone worked on it after me then. I don't know why it was worth the extra work, but whatev...
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Kontradaz posted:Either the quality of usenet is lower than I had thought, or blocknews is pretty much a terrible usenet provider. Either way, after having to slog through many failed downloads and random slowdowns of speed with blocknews, I really recommend that you guys stick with providers like supernews rather than block ones. I don't know why, but my experiene has been pretty terrible. Used my blocknews account quite heavily this weekend without issue (only 20 MBits). What were your failed downloads? Missing pieces or what?
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Vykk.Draygo posted:Well, you jerks can finally rub it in my face because I finally have a problem with Newsdemon. For the past week or two I've been getting max 2.5 megabytes per second and I just assumed that it was my internet connection. Speedtest shows a solid 30 megabit though so I tested with my backup blocknews account and sure enough, full speed. I'm hoping this is a temporary issue. If it's not, I still can't say that I'll jump to another provider. Nothing new with a highwinds provider! SlipperyNipple fucked around with this message at 17:44 on Jan 23, 2012 |
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Any way to prioritize backup servers? I've got blocknews and astraweb, but blocknews is way cheaper so I'd rather it go for that first (and it's also the one I added first), but somehow astraweb is listed first, and has downloaded about four times as much as blocknews. (though we're talking 60 MB vs 240 MB, so I guess it really doesn't matter.
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Ingram posted:Sabnzb has been having a lot of issues lately renaming folders from UNPACK_x to the normal folder name. Seems to have started since I updated Sabnzb to the latest version. Anyone else getting this? Get this quite often - fustrating. Have put troubleshooting to the side and wait until I setup my new media server and set Sab/SB/CP up again freshly.
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Looks like Fileserve and Filesonic have jumped ship. Sharing is disabled. 
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