difference between torrents and news servers - pse explain

abzo said:
I use newshost. couldn't even download episodes of modern family season 2 because they were too old.
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Newshost is just a nzb index site - I am referring to the actual server you connect to, not where you get the nzbs.

Two of the most popular providers at the moment are Astraweb and Newsdemon, both offer good value unlimited packages.
 
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Okay I don't really understand. Someone just set it up for me and gave me their newshost log in details. Don't know which server is being used.

So the availability of the items depends on the server not the site?
 
abzo said:
Okay I don't really understand. Someone just set it up for me and gave me their newshost log in details. Don't know which server is being used.

So the availability of the items depends on the server not the site?
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Don't worry, news servers can be a bit confusing at first. What program are you using to download with (i.e. sabnzbd, alt.binz, etc)? That's a good place to start.
 
Soul Assassin said:
Nee dankie.
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Thats old crap. The bitthief client sends only data when its looking for other bitthief clients to download pieces from. You can disable it in options T4T option untick it.
Read this
http://www.disco.ethz.ch/publications/p2pstegano_213.pdf
Thats what bitthief does.

Read this as well.
http://www.disco.ethz.ch/publications/p2p07.pdf

It doesnt send anything that you download anywhere as the first pdf will explain.

Then if anyone is worried about someone seeing you pirate then your out of luck because no matter what you use or how you try and hide it the ISP can see you.

The ISP uses a thing called Nasus
http://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/smt-gst.nsf/eng/sf09063.html

Thats how they set up the broadband plans and other things as well. That thing sees everything your doing basically
 
I know this has not been an active thread for a while, but have tried to get help in another thread without any luck.

I use SABznbd; i find my nzb files on nzbs.org and have an astraweb account, but also link to MWeb or WA news server depending on which ISP I am connecting with.

A few weeks ago - after many months of hassle free usage of SABznbd - I started getting incomplete downloads and the files were a couple of hundred days old. Anyway someone said to update SABzndb and the problem went away. Now for the last few days, files that are 400 odd days old are all coming up with missing blocks - a few megs short at most - so basically am wasting gigs and gigs. I also have winrar to repair things, but this does not seem to be working.

I have things set up, but not technically minded, so when all works, life is fine, but when glitches happen, I have limited success in solving them, hence my hopes that someone here will have a user friendly, easy to understand solution :)
 
Fulton17 said:
I know this has not been an active thread for a while, but have tried to get help in another thread without any luck.

I use SABznbd; i find my nzb files on nzbs.org and have an astraweb account, but also link to MWeb or WA news server depending on which ISP I am connecting with.

A few weeks ago - after many months of hassle free usage of SABznbd - I started getting incomplete downloads and the files were a couple of hundred days old. Anyway someone said to update SABzndb and the problem went away. Now for the last few days, files that are 400 odd days old are all coming up with missing blocks - a few megs short at most - so basically am wasting gigs and gigs. I also have winrar to repair things, but this does not seem to be working.

I have things set up, but not technically minded, so when all works, life is fine, but when glitches happen, I have limited success in solving them, hence my hopes that someone here will have a user friendly, easy to understand solution :)
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Tell the usenet client to fetch those pairity files included in the .nzb. Then use this to repair the .rar files
http://www.quickpar.org.uk/

That is why the par2 files are included in the .nzb, to fix the files when they get a bit older.
 
@Fulton17: What version of Sabnzbd are you using now? Are you running it on Windows?

I just updated to 7.3 beta 1 last night and hit a problem with "repair failed, not enough repair blocks, (xyz short)"
Is this the error you get?

Sabnzbd is configured to automagically download par2 files to provide the repair blocks, and runs the repair automatically for you.

Sometimes, the repair fails, as in the above message, but you can manually run the repair, IF you actually have sufficient par2 recovery files. I managed to fix my repair error, manually, because there was one misnamed data file, which caused par2 not to scan the file, thus missing blocks of data. I forced par2 to scan all the files, and it worked fine.

As the OP suggests, if you are running windows, download the quickpar program, go to Sabnzbd's incomplete file folder, and run quickpar on all the par files, then if that is ok, run winrar to extract your data.

On linux my command is
Code: 
par2 r somefile.vol*.par2 *
 
@agentrfr - will download quickpar. . Sorry, but how do I tell SBAznbd to fetch those files?

@ozoned - Version 7.2; Windows 7 32 bit. Yep that is the error message. So if I am understanding correct quickpar should fix the errors.

My DL's over night have all worked fine, but the oldest file was 193 days, so that might have had something to do with it.

Reading between the lines, there must be some glitch with SABzndb as for ages this never happened to me once, and in the last few months it has been terrible.

Thank you to both you guys so much - will keep you posted :)
 
Hi guys, can anybody please advise me where I can get episodes in xvid format,I use nzbmatrix and nzbs'r'us
But they only have x264 and I am getting fed up with errors I get from that format.
Thanks
 
greenbean32 said:
Hi guys, can anybody please advise me where I can get episodes in xvid format,I use nzbmatrix and nzbs'r'us
But they only have x264 and I am getting fed up with errors I get from that format.
Thanks
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Don't know if you know, but "the powers that are" come together every year or so and decide on standards. Xvid was kicked in favor of the formats you see all over. Release groups that do not follow these standards are shunned by their peers. With torrents you get groups that release the work of others into different formats like Xvid (but also the enforced formats). Names like scenebalance, TvTeam, ettv etc
 
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