People still getting empty file errors with Sab+nzb+sickbeard? The simple solution to this would be set a delay for when Sickbeard tells Sab to fetch the file from nzb. If they fail there's no automatic feature that re-snatches them. I always have to go in and manually try again.

4/24/2012 9:43:13 AM

Ok, I think I've got everything up and running, but now I've got another problem.

It randomly gives me these errors in sickbeard:

2012-04-24 11:09:59.163000 SEARCHQUEUE-BACKLOG-71256 :: Error while searching NZBMatrix, skipping: NZBMatrix.com RSS 2.0 en NZBMatrix.com RSS Feed - Usenet http://nzbmatrix.com Copyright 2012 NZBMatrix Tue, 24 Apr 2012 17:09:53 +0200
2012-04-24 11:09:59.164000 SEARCHQUEUE-BACKLOG-71256 :: No NZB/Torrent providers found or enabled in the sickbeard config. Please check your settings.

This was working great last night, and the only thing I have changed was the post processing behavior on SAB.

I am at work on their wireless, which I don't know if some port would be blocked, but I have no idea what would be causing this. I've double checked all of the settings in SB and it appears to have all of the correct login information.

I'm trying to run the backlog check to download some episodes I have marked as wanted. It snatched about 2-3 of them and downloaded them in SAB, but then starting kicking out these errors.

4/24/2012 11:29:26 AM

Did you check your sickbeard config to see if it is still good?

Also - I would imagine that your office would have these ports blocked.

4/24/2012 3:20:56 PM

I had that problem when I updated to the latest build. For some reason it wasn't setting the search settings and it would keep resetting to no search providers set. I ended up having to revert back to 487 to get it working again.

4/24/2012 9:19:04 PM

Has anybody tried to download the UFC fight from this past weekend? I can do a search for it and find about 15 different copies, but every single one of them will refuse to download. It's as if they have been deleted from the server. I don't have a clue what kind of legal power you'd have to wield in order to make something like that happen, but if that is indeed what happened, I'd have to assume it's only a matter of time before every copyright holder does the same thing. I really hope the future of newsgroups doesn't reside in private websites hosting member's only nzb files linked to nameless password protected rar files. Might as well be using torrents at that point.

4/25/2012 3:58:23 PM

No I only download Linux distros from Usenet.

4/25/2012 4:00:29 PM

Looks like it is DMCA takedowns that are causing it to not download.

http://nzbmatrix.com/nzb-comment.php?id=1254078

There goes the neighborhood.

4/25/2012 10:03:40 PM

That's no good.

4/25/2012 11:05:44 PM

I have a question about movies that I'm getting from nzbmatrix. It seems like every movie I have gotten lately will be fine until somewhere around the 1.5-2 hour mark, and then the movie will...scramble? I don't know the correct term, so I don't really know how to search on google for it. It fixes itself after a few seconds or so, but it always seems to happen at the dramatic reveal of something, so it's super annoying.

It doesn't seem to have anything to do with actual runtime of the movie, because I just took a screenshot of a movie that did it by skipping ahead to the 2 hour mark.

I'm using XBMC, and pulling the movies from NZB using coachpotato.

Here is a screenshot of what I'm talking about:



I would understand if it was one movie...but almost all of them? Is it a problem with XBMC, or am I just getting poor rips over and over?

6/9/2012 7:54:05 PM

Have you tried using something besides XBMC to rule that out?

6/9/2012 9:05:15 PM

that would have been a great first step...wouldn't it?

Just tested with VLC and worked fine, so it's something in XBMC. I'm guessing no one else has had this? What exactly is this problem called?

6/9/2012 11:15:23 PM

When you tested VLC, were you using the same device that is running XBMC?

6/9/2012 11:53:36 PM

Quote :

"I'm guessing no one else has had this? What exactly is this problem called?"

It's called artifacting. It happens to me occasionally, but not nearly as often as you're describing. Does it only happen on super high bitrate stuff? The only time I've really had it happen to me is when I try to play high bitrate 1080p stuff on older hardware that can't really handle it.

6/10/2012 1:20:38 AM

Most of the stuff I'm grabbing is 720P.

6/10/2012 12:20:13 PM

what format and is it actually 720p?

6/10/2012 2:23:38 PM

mostly mkv files, and according to the info that it scrubs on xbmc it is 720

6/10/2012 4:54:39 PM

is this on an ATV?

6/10/2012 5:31:45 PM

No, it does it directly on my laptop. I haven't gotten an ATV yet because I was going to wait for 3 to be jailbroken.

Normally I just hdmi my laptop to my tv and use a wireless keyboard to browse.

laptop is an Asus that I got about an year and a half ago.

6/10/2012 5:55:38 PM

I read some other forums that suggested turning off hardware acceleration. I'm probably going to watch a movie tonight so we'll see if that worked.

6/10/2012 7:54:44 PM

Bump

10/7/2012 2:13:08 AM

^thanks

I've been loving NZBMatrix and Sickbeard, and everything has been working out great. However I have a SB question.

Have any of you had your Sickbeard randomly stop updating shows? From time to time and I have to go through every single show in my list and do a manual "force-update" or else it thinks no new shows have aired in the past several weeks. Not a showstopper, just annoying.

Also, I have found it pretty annoying to come into a show late in the game with newsgroups. But I guess that's just the nature of shows on the internet.

10/7/2012 8:43:12 PM

Quote :

"Also, I have found it pretty annoying to come into a show late in the game with newsgroups. But I guess that's just the nature of shows on the internet."

I'm not following what you mean.

10/7/2012 9:12:40 PM

Been running a SABnzbd and Sickbeard setup for over a year and I have never run into the issue of shows not updating. I would go into your settings and double check the config on how often it reaches out to nzbmatix or whatever you use. Are you running the most recent version of Sickbeard? I would also check out your log file in Sickbeard to see if anything is throwing errors when searching.

10/7/2012 9:30:53 PM

Quote :

"I'm not following what you mean."

I just started watching Doctor Who. It started in 2005, and it takes more work to find the episodes. I'm on season 2, and the only thing I could find is a 6 part dvd pack that each DL is 9 GB. That's a long DL for just 2 episodes on each.

10/8/2012 6:25:52 AM

That's just the nature of the beast - if you are chasing shows that aired that long ago or shows that are not really popular you might have a tough time.

10/8/2012 10:24:21 AM

Yeah, dr who is probably one of the worst examples because it does go back to beyond the 1000 day retention of most servers. I really can think of only one time that I wasn't able to find older episodes of a show I was looking for. It seems like DVD rips of practically every show get posted a few times a year somewhere, and if it aired in the last 3 years the original tv rips are still available as well.

10/8/2012 11:03:19 AM

Doctor Who is on Netflix, btw.

10/8/2012 11:06:38 AM

Quote :

"I just started watching Doctor Who. It started in 2005, and it takes more work to find the episodes. I'm on season 2, and the only thing I could find is a 6 part dvd pack that each DL is 9 GB. That's a long DL for just 2 episodes on each."

Yeah, I just did a search on Supersearch in Newsleecher and found about 5 different versions of season 1 of Dr. Who ranging from x264 DD 2.0 MKV DVD Rips that are ~800MB each, down to crappy xvids that run about 300 Megs and a few different variants in between. I'm not sure why you're having so much trouble, but I can send you an NZB if you need it.

10/8/2012 1:33:35 PM

just go request reposts from the chans on efnet

10/10/2012 9:59:55 PM

completely unnecessary.

10/10/2012 11:31:04 PM

DMCA takedown requests are going to kill Usenet. At least they're going to make it difficult for everybody until workarounds are found. I guess the future is gonna be private member's only secret NZB hosting websites. Might as well use torrents at that point.

On a different note, I just found out about http://www.xsusenet.com/en/ They offer a completely free usenet account. It is limited to 1Mbps, so obviously it isn't for heavy use, but if anybody is trying to get into usenet without paying a bunch of money to see what the deal is or if you want a 2nd backup server, you can't beat the price. I just tried it out, and it does appear to be the real deal, but the 2-3 things I was looking for that got DMCA'd on UNS are also gone on xsu. I guess being in the Netherlands doesn't give them immunity from the DMCA lawyers.

11/1/2012 9:19:00 PM

Quote :

"It is with regret that we announce the closure of Newzbin2."

What are y'all fools using now?

11/30/2012 9:44:09 PM

There's no point in using a NZB or searching service anymore. DMCA takedowns killed usenet as it used to be.

[Edited on December 1, 2012 at 1:04 AM. Reason : If it's easy for you to find, it's easy for them to find. ]

12/1/2012 1:03:14 AM

Haven't had a single issue with Giganews yet.

12/2/2012 2:49:54 PM

I just can't get over how much more expensive Giganews still is over practically every other provider out there. It's easily 3 times more. But I guess if it's the only place that still carries everything, it might be worth it. The problem I see is that now that posters know about DMCA takedowns, they're no longer bothering to post things out in the open because they know it will just be deleted. So even if Giganews doesn't take stuff down, I don't see how it will matter if it's not even getting posted where you can find it in the first place.

12/2/2012 4:50:06 PM

paying money to steal things.. I've never understood the rationalization of this

12/2/2012 6:45:51 PM

Quote :

" What are y'all fools using now?"

I've been using NZBmatrix ever since newzbin originally went down. $12 for 10 years or something.

Quote :

"I just can't get over how much more expensive Giganews still is over practically every other provider out there."

http://www.news.astraweb.com/specials/kleverig-11.html
I use Astraweb, it's 11/month with 1500+ day retention. And I haven't had problems with downloading anything. I used to use Giganews when I had a special that was like $15/month for a year. When it expired, I switched. Wasn't going to pay $30/month for it.

Quote :

"paying money to steal things.. I've never understood the rationalization of this"

$11/month is well worth not having to spend any time or effort to download all the TV that we watch. I was paying over $100/month to TWC before I setup sickbeard, so it's more like saving $90/month than paying $11. And that doesn't even take into account all of the other stuff that's available on the newsgroups.

12/3/2012 10:37:52 AM

think i'll be looking into that later...

12/3/2012 11:30:53 AM

If I were the kind that downloaded from newsgroups, I would happily pay the newsdemon monthly fee.

12/3/2012 2:01:49 PM

Quote :

"I use Astraweb, it's 11/month with 1500+ day retention. And I haven't had problems with downloading anything. I used to use Giganews when I had a special that was like $15/month for a year. When it expired, I switched. Wasn't going to pay $30/month for it."

Really? From everything I've read Astraweb is one of the worst when it comes to DMCA takedowns. Apparently they have a system that is automated and removes content within minutes, so a lot of people with automated setups still can't get the content. At least that's what I've read, I don't know for sure.

I just did a trial of Giganews and it had all the stuff that was pulled from UNS. I didn't realize the 15 day trial was only good for 10 GB though, so I ran through that in a few hours. I found out that supernews is a giganews reseller, so I'm about to try them out to make sure all the content is there, but they have a $10/month unlimited special going on right now, so I'll probably end up there for a while.

[Edited on December 3, 2012 at 7:32 PM. Reason : ok, so YESTERDAY they had a $10/month plan, looks like today it's $12 ]

[Edited on December 3, 2012 at 7:33 PM. Reason : yay for cached web histories! http://www.supernews.com/super-special/#]

12/3/2012 7:22:51 PM

I can confirm, supernews is not a giganews reseller. Content that I know was on giganews yesterday is not on supernews now.

12/3/2012 7:42:00 PM

Or it was taken down from Giganews between then and now.

I've never noticed an issue with Astraweb. I usually have whatever movie for a couple of weeks before I get around to watching it. Anything that I want to watch the day it comes out, I usually buy anyways. Do they only keep up the takedowns for a while and then stop after a couple of weeks? If that is the case, then I probably wouldn't notice them.

12/3/2012 10:36:26 PM

nzbmatrix is now gone

12/9/2012 10:34:39 AM

Yeah it is. Hmm.

12/9/2012 12:02:34 PM

Damn, wish i hadn't paid for a vip membership exactly 1 week ago.

12/9/2012 12:55:14 PM

Eh sickbeard still uses womble's index or sick beard index. It seems to be doing fine without nzbmatrix.

12/9/2012 1:02:02 PM

Yeah this sucks. Not sure what i'll do if sickbeard stops working entirely.

12/9/2012 2:31:19 PM

Quote :

"nzbmatrix is now gone"

Arg, just saw this too.

Quote :

"Yeah this sucks. Not sure what i'll do if sickbeard stops working entirely."

Pay $150+ a month for cable, DVR, hbo, netflix, and amazon prime just to watch TV.

From NBZ's site:

Quote :

"Also the Usenet Indexing scene is going through some changes, with content being removed from pretty much every provider its making the existence of an indexer irrelevant if the content does not even exists anymore."

How soon until usenet is completely dead?

Also, which provider are yall using for couch potato now?

[Edited on December 9, 2012 at 2:51 PM. Reason : .]

12/9/2012 2:32:03 PM

has anyone looked into newznab? Create your own index possibly.

12/9/2012 4:34:53 PM

^It's not the indexing that's the problem. As mentioned in the post above yours, it doesn't matter how good the index is, if the content is being pulled before you can download it.

I don't think this will completely kill usenet, it will just make it so difficult to use that most people will move on (back?) to torrents or some other form of file sharing. As I mentioned a while back, I rarely use index sites or search engines and have taken to downloading the headers manually for the few groups I follow. It's a small time consuming process (10-15 minutes per day) but it does allow me to see everything that's posted and download the "coded" things that are there but not indexed due to them not having a proper name. So far it's worked for me and I have been able to get all the shows that I watch without too much hassle. But I doubt it's something that most people who are used to the automation of Sickbeard and Couch potato will tolerate.

12/9/2012 8:19:28 PM