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Thermopyle
Jul 1, 2003

...the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt. —Bertrand Russell

Smeep posted:

Hmmm. Thanks, but I'm still not getting it. It looks like I can only choose from MediaBrowser, WDTV, XBMC and Sony PS3, but none of those will work with pyTivo I don't think. Right now I'm using MetaGenerator Version 3, but I thought maybe there'd be some way to make it work automatically.

I just assumed you could do something with one of those. pyTivo isn't exactly widely used compared to the other options. You'll have to write a script to transform an XBMC nfo file into pyTivo's format, or convince pyTivo devs to stop using their own silly metadata format.

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Thermopyle
Jul 1, 2003

...the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt. —Bertrand Russell

wolrah posted:

FYI, porn is just as copyrighted as anything else and thus just as :filez:.

I just read this a few minutes ago:

http://bit.ly/rBcMXz

quote:

Following on our story about questions concerning the copyright status of both Debbie Does Dallas and Deepthroat, we're pointed to a copyright lawsuit concerning porn, in which the judge notes that in many parts of the country, it's actually an open question if porn can even be covered by copyright.

Thermopyle
Jul 1, 2003

...the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt. —Bertrand Russell

Smeep posted:

Not to derail too much, but that's ridiculous. Of course you wouldn't be able to copyright "people having sex," but certainly any film or even a film clip is automatically copyrighted upon its creation, no? If it's legal, obviously. If not, then it's moot anyway.

Well apparently the issue is that what you say makes sense, it just isn't a settled issue in many jurisdictions. (Note that IANAL, but the text quoted is from a judge, so whatever that means to you)

Thermopyle
Jul 1, 2003

...the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt. —Bertrand Russell

EC posted:

Does Sickbeard have the ability to look for different show names? For example, the TVDB might have a show listed as "Show Name: The Anime" but the scene will post nzbs as "Show Name: TAS" or something wacky.

No.

I had to create a saved search on NZBMatrix and subscribe to that RSS feed in SAB. I then wrote a simple little python post-processing script that SAB uses on every item in that feed. The script renames the episodes to what Sickbeard expects and then calls the Sickbeard post-processing script with the renamed file.

Thermopyle
Jul 1, 2003

...the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt. —Bertrand Russell

Kontradaz posted:

Just FYI, if anyone is thinking of SuperNews:

"Hello,

The article/articles in question have been removed from our servers to fulfill a DMCA take down request.

For more information regarding DMCA, please see our 'Terms & Conditions' on our website.

Thank you."

I'm expecting this to spread to many more articles as well.

EDIT:

Guess this is old news. Anyone got recommendations for replacements? Non-block preferably.

Like you say, this is very old news and this is the solution:

Everyone worth using does this. Just use Supernews and spend a few bucks on a Blocknews account to fill in the missing articles.

What's your problem with using a block account to fill?

Thermopyle
Jul 1, 2003

...the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt. —Bertrand Russell

td4guy posted:

The problem is that nearly entire multi-gigabyte articles are being taken down, rather than just 10-20% of them or whatever.

Oh really? I haven't run into that.

Actually, now that I think about it, I may have run into it and just haven't noticed because it was filled from my blocknews account.

I buy something like the 10GB block account 3 or 4 times a year...

I don't recall ever running into a file that I couldn't get in full (unless it was just out of retention).

Thermopyle
Jul 1, 2003

...the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt. —Bertrand Russell

Vykk.Draygo posted:

SAB Sheep if you have an NZBMatrix account.

Have you tried NZB Air? I haven't tried any of them, but NZB Air looks like it's got a bit better rating.

Thermopyle
Jul 1, 2003

...the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt. —Bertrand Russell

maniacripper posted:

Why so many connections? My internet speed maxes out around the same as yours but I saturate at about 4. Doesn't more threads wear out your hard drive?

Hah. Was this a joke?

Thermopyle
Jul 1, 2003

...the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt. —Bertrand Russell

duz posted:

There is a project in the works that'd map tvdb numbers to scene numbers and viceversa. I hope it'll actually end up working out well.

Another project I've had on the back burner of my brain stolen! I better get royalties.

Thermopyle
Jul 1, 2003

...the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt. —Bertrand Russell

wolrah posted:

At least the ones I've seen recently almost all posts are missing, they're not just killing enough to break PAR repair like they used to. It just results in SAB sitting there with the progress bar moving at lightning speed but nothing actually downloading.

I can't recall the last time I had a failed download. I'd look into other problems unless you're just positive that you're looking at DMCA failures.

Thermopyle
Jul 1, 2003

...the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt. —Bertrand Russell

EC posted:

I have, and it works fine. Just use "Show Name - S01E01-E02.ext" and it'll scan in fine (that naming scheme will work in XBMC as well).

That's multiple episodes in a single file. I think he's asking about 1 episode spanned across multiple files.

Thermopyle
Jul 1, 2003

...the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt. —Bertrand Russell

inpheaux posted:

If you haven't enabled SickBeard Index, do it.

What's better about it? I have it enabled but looking at my history only one thing has come from there and the rest all comes through nzbs.org or nzb.su...

Thermopyle
Jul 1, 2003

...the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt. —Bertrand Russell

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.
I've toggled "restrict to English" on for nzbmatrix provider, however I also have newzbin and nzb.su set up.

Anyone got any ideas?

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

Thermopyle
Jul 1, 2003

...the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt. —Bertrand Russell

Lowen SoDium posted:

Awesome, this is what I needed. Thanks

And I know Sickbeard can notify XBMC directly which is handy, but it's only useful if you are actually watching XBMC at the time it notifies. I would like it so that when I turn my TV and see XBMC, the first thing I see is a history feed of downloads, like things it had downloaded while I was at work or asleep. I can just point it at that url you gave me and it will accomplish what I want.

Thanks again.

Another solution is using a skin that lists the most recently added videos. I use Aeon Nox which has the ability to list the most recent movies and tv shows. I know a lot of other skins have this as well...

Thermopyle
Jul 1, 2003

...the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt. —Bertrand Russell

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.

Maybe I'm doing something wrong with MediaBrowser or WMC7, but their built in scrapers suck compared to XBMC.

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....

Thermopyle
Jul 1, 2003

...the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt. —Bertrand Russell

kri kri posted:

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.

Oh, well someone worked on it after me then.

I don't know why it was worth the extra work, but whatev...

Thermopyle
Jul 1, 2003

...the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt. —Bertrand Russell

FISHMANPET posted:

Just curious, what do you guys do with shows that aren't on anymore in Sickbeard? Do you leave them in the DB, or get rid of them? The only reason I can see it mattering is for getting updated season art.

I keep them in there so sickbeard will get bluray quality rips when available.

Thermopyle
Jul 1, 2003

...the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt. —Bertrand Russell

jarito posted:

Understood. However, speedtest wise, I'm hitting 50 and I would expect to see some fluctuation if it was congestion related, but I'm seeing a pretty steady 1.6 / 1.7 which is what I had before I upgraded the speed.

If it's anything like Charter's boost or whatever you call it, you only get the boosted speed for a few megabytes or something.

Thermopyle
Jul 1, 2003

...the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt. —Bertrand Russell

Biowarfare posted:

It's actually really loving horrible once you realise that the only reason it isn't 10.0MB+ is because of greed, monopolies, and taxpayer money being used as C-level bonuses

While I agree, it's a little confounding to that theory that I'm paying Charter $65/month for 100/5 on which I get consistent 11MB/s downloads. And I live in a town with a whopping 5,000 people.

Thermopyle
Jul 1, 2003

...the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt. —Bertrand Russell

Vykk.Draygo posted:

Where the hell are you getting 100/5 from Charter for $65? I pay $55 (would be $65 without TV) and they just upgraded us from 18/2 to 30/4.

I'm within 60 miles of St. Louis.

edit: Oops, sorry. I have my bill set up on autopay and it's been awhile since I looked at it. I actually pay $85

Thermopyle
Jul 1, 2003

...the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt. —Bertrand Russell

FISHMANPET posted:

I'm pretty sure I know what show you're talking about, and they're just being consistent with their rules.

There's a lot of shows that have this problem.

As far as a solution goes, here's the method I use:

1. Set up a saved search on nzbmatrix or whatever and subscribe to the RSS feed in SABNZbddabadddzz++=
2. Write a post processing script that renames the file to match up with what the tvdb says and then calls sickbeards post processing script.
3. Get mad that you have to do this for every show that thetvdb is being stupid about.

I like how thetvdb wants to pretend that 90% of their users aren't using the site to rename files sourced from the scene. Jerks.

Anyway, I'd post a sample post processing script, but I'm not sure if that would be kosher. If a mod wants to weigh in and tell me one way or the other...

Thermopyle
Jul 1, 2003

...the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt. —Bertrand Russell

kri kri posted:

What is xem?

http://thexem.de/

Thermopyle
Jul 1, 2003

...the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt. —Bertrand Russell

Well, I just modified the script a bit...it was really customized for specific shows. Now it should work for any show that you have to add or subtract from season or episode to match scene to tvdb.

https://github.com/therms/scene2tvdb

I haven't actually tried my modified version because it's late and I'm lazy, but if anyone wants to try it out and let me know how it works I'll fix it if needed.

This should work with shows that just use four digits as their season/episode identification (gently caress those shows). If your show typically has a year in its scene name...well that will gently caress this poo poo up. I'll fix it if that's a problem for anyone.

It will also work with shows that have a scene name identified with "S03E11"-style episode/season identification.

Currently won't work with any other types of season/episode numbering. I can fix that if anyone actually uses this.

If you need to replace any text in the scene name to make sure it matches with the TVDB, you can do that also.

Instructions
  1. Edit the line "season_delta = 2" to add or subtract season numbers.
  2. Edit the line "episode_delta = 0" to add or subtract episode numbers.
  3. Edit the "replace_words" dictionary to change text in the downloaded file/folder names with the specified text. Just change it to {} if you don't want this.
  4. Put the script in the same directory as sickbeards autoProcessTV.py/sabToSickbeard.py. Name it appropriately for the show since you'll need to make a copy of it for each show you want to add.
  5. Create an RSS feed at your provider of choice with a saved search for the show that is misnumbered by the scene or tvdb. (I've only tried this with nzbmatrix)
  6. Subscribe to that feed with SABnzbd+ and specify whatever you named the script in step 4 as the post-processing script for that RSS feed.
  7. Profit from automated downloads of shows with hosed up season/episodes/shownames.

Thermopyle fucked around with this message at 19:22 on Feb 3, 2012

Thermopyle
Jul 1, 2003

...the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt. —Bertrand Russell

Ok I fixed that lovely script up a little bit. Should work a lot better since I just stole Sickbeard's name parsing code.

Thermopyle
Jul 1, 2003

...the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt. —Bertrand Russell

FISHMANPET posted:

Yeah, I'm looking for the minor fixes. Not that it's really hard to upgrade, but I'm wondering if I should bother or not.

Hit github and look over the commit messages, I guess.

Thermopyle
Jul 1, 2003

...the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt. —Bertrand Russell

I wonder why different people need different number of connections...

I needed 18 connections to max out my 60mbit cable on Supernews, and I forgot to tweak that when I got upgraded to 100mbit cable. I'll do that right now.

edit: I've seen 11.5MB/s on an FTP download on my 100mbit connection. The most I can get on Supernews is about 10.5, which takes 30 connections. I think 30 is the max on Supernews?

Thermopyle fucked around with this message at 19:32 on Feb 8, 2012

Thermopyle
Jul 1, 2003

...the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt. —Bertrand Russell

Well poo poo. I just noticed the Multi-Operations under the drop down menu on the right side of SABNzbd Plush.

You don't know how many times I cursed the Plush designer (it's one of you guys here I think?) for not having that.

Sperg Victorious posted:

Are you using SSL? That has a bit of overhead on it.

Yeah. I was getting a bit more speed with each connection I added so I don't think I was actually maxing out my connection by the time I reached Supernews max connections.

Thermopyle
Jul 1, 2003

...the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt. —Bertrand Russell

FISHMANPET posted:

It's setting the new stuff to High priority, though don't know exactly what parameters it's using to determine how new something has to be for it to be high priority.

IIRC, backlog stuff is normal priority, currently airing stuff is high.

Thermopyle
Jul 1, 2003

...the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt. —Bertrand Russell

kri kri posted:

Speaking of thetvdb I really hope that xem things takes off since thetvdb is so terrible with loving around with show data.

I was talking with the xem guy on IRC a couple weeks ago when I posted that script for fixing shows whose season or episode number is off by a fixed amount. He acted like he was still actively working on it, and I know sickbeard devs are just waiting on him to get it finalized.

Thermopyle
Jul 1, 2003

...the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt. —Bertrand Russell

Cage posted:

Sorry for another question, but my sickbeard still says that an episode that finished airing 20 minutes ago still hasnt aired even though the nzb is already on nzbmatrix. I have SB and SAB refresh every 10 minutes, but nothing seems to be pulling the file. Do I have to wait for SB to change from "unaired"?

Does the TVDB list today as the air date for that episode?

Did it list the correct air date yesterday?

Sickbeard updates the next-air date for all shows every day at 3AM.

edit: Also sickbeard continually monitors the RSS feed for nzbmatrix and wherever. When the show shows up it will download it no matter what the next-air date is.

Thermopyle fucked around with this message at 05:33 on Feb 22, 2012

Thermopyle
Jul 1, 2003

...the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt. —Bertrand Russell

PirateDentist posted:

I have a 40 watt HTPC and I have no lagging issues at all.It's a (true) dual core 1.6GHz Atom CPU with an nVidia ION GPU though, it offloads everything to the GPU so it sits there most of the time at about 5% use on either core while watching blu-ray rips.

I have my incomplete on a 2.5HDD and my complete folders on an USB External 2TB drive. It's smooth through the notifications of it starting to download something and when it's complete. I'm surprised at how smooth everything works considering how modest the specs are.

Your HTPC is a special snowflake.

Low power HTPC's like the Atom/ION thingamajigs lagging during XBMC library updates is a widely experienced issue. Heck, my C2D/Radeon 5890 HTPC lags a little bit sometimes during library updates.

Thermopyle fucked around with this message at 21:44 on Feb 25, 2012

Thermopyle
Jul 1, 2003

...the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt. —Bertrand Russell

FISHMANPET posted:

They could be shaping traffic to specific destinations (maybe? Can they see that through SSL).

Yes. They have to know where to send your packets.

Thermopyle
Jul 1, 2003

...the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt. —Bertrand Russell

Nate RFB posted:

Is there any conceivable chance that this could have an effect on usenet downloaders besides the usual throttling tactic? SSL or non-SSL, I suppose.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/03/15/american-isps-to-launch-massive-copyright-spying-scheme-on-july-12/

Depends on if they're idiots or not. Well, I guess merely engaging in this makes them idiots, but what I mean is if they're looking at traffic destinations or doing packet inspection. If they're doing traffic destinations, then they could get you for massive amounts of traffic to a usenet provider even if they can't tell what it is you're downloading because you're using SSL.

If they're doing the "smarter" thing and doing packet inspection, then they can't tell what you're downloading...if you're using SSL.

Thermopyle
Jul 1, 2003

...the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt. —Bertrand Russell

Ragingsheep posted:

Isn't mp4 the new defacto standard?

For what?

Definitely not for stuff downloaded off of Usenet.

Thermopyle
Jul 1, 2003

...the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt. —Bertrand Russell

Sperg Victorious posted:

All new SD scene content is going to be in mp4 due to a scene rule change.

Oh yeah, I forgot anyone still downloads SD.

Thermopyle
Jul 1, 2003

...the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt. —Bertrand Russell

YouTuber posted:

When using Couchpotato are you forced to use the category function of Sanzbd to send it to whatever folder upon completion or does it handle that like Sickbeard does? Insofar it appears to just dump it into the default completed folder is this because I haven't enabled post processing somehow with Couchpotato or does it just not have that built in?

Settings>Renaming>Movie destination?

Thermopyle
Jul 1, 2003

...the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt. —Bertrand Russell

longview posted:

I tried it on a >200 mbit connection and found somewhere around 5-10 was ideal, at 20 the speed would oscillate wildly leading to lower average throughput.

This depends on a lot of factors. The only thing you can do is test it out and see what works best.

I'm on 100mbit and have to use 30 connections to max out.

Thermopyle
Jul 1, 2003

...the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt. —Bertrand Russell

You don't need the browser open or anything. Sickbeard just sits there in the background doing it's thing. Just bookmark localhost:port for whenever you want to check out your shows or add a new one or whatever.

Thermopyle
Jul 1, 2003

...the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt. —Bertrand Russell

Feenix posted:

Who is a good alternative?

He mentions three in the very post you quoted.

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Thermopyle
Jul 1, 2003

...the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt. —Bertrand Russell

I made one of these about a year ago and posted it in this thread, so I'm posting the new version I made...

http://youtu.be/HnfdTgm4vOs

It's a visualization of the commit history for SickBeard.

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