Sickbeard / sabnzbd

Mike Hoxbig said:
Most BR players and TVs these days play MKV files using the H264 codec, why do you still have a DVD player? :p

Better still, if one is running a Sickbeard + SABNZBd combo, they would be doing themselves a huge favour by getting a dedicated media player. The whole point of automation is to make your life easier, and you're complicating it again by copying content to a flash drive and sticking it into a DVD player that may or may not be able to play it.
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I have a few media players in the house including WiiMC. WiiMC is a bit iffy with .MKV and my built in media player on the TV is iffy. Sometimes the kids want to watch something while I watch something else, so xvid solves that one. Bottom line... anyone know how to exclude .mkvs?
 
IPX-SPX said:
I have a few media players in the house including WiiMC. WiiMC is a bit iffy with .MKV and my built in media player on the TV is iffy. Sometimes the kids want to watch something while I watch something else, so xvid solves that one. Bottom line... anyone know how to exclude .mkvs?
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just select SD under the settings for the show? Seems to do the trick for me.




If for whatever reason that doesnt work, you could try custom settings to force the issue more specifically

 
IPX-SPX said:
I have a few media players in the house including WiiMC. WiiMC is a bit iffy with .MKV and my built in media player on the TV is iffy. Sometimes the kids want to watch something while I watch something else, so xvid solves that one. Bottom line... anyone know how to exclude .mkvs?
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TV shows encoded in XviD are quickly becoming extinct though. You'll need to plan for it because it's going to become more of an issue for you.
 
If you already have it set to SD and .mkv's are still downloading it's likely it's a mSD release.

Shutdown Sick Beard, go to it's install directory, open config.ini and add msd to the ignored words, restart Sick Beard and that's that.
 
Soul Assassin said:
If you already have it set to SD and .mkv's are still downloading it's likely it's a mSD release.

Shutdown Sick Beard, go to it's install directory, open config.ini and add msd to the ignored words, restart Sick Beard and that's that.
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Ta, I'll try that!
 
Ok, I figured out why that one episode of Auction Hunters wouldn't download - it's because I was being pedantic about SD vs HD. I edited the folder and instead of preferring SD, I said 'Any' for quality and it found it finally.

Thanks for all the help in here btw. I've learned much! :)
 
Hi All

How do I get newztown to work with sickbeard? I have the API in etc and im not getting it right. What should the URL be?
 
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Mike Hoxbig said:
Most BR players and TVs these days play MKV files using the H264 codec, why do you still have a DVD player? :p

Better still, if one is running a Sickbeard + SABNZBd combo, they would be doing themselves a huge favour by getting a dedicated media player. The whole point of automation is to make your life easier, and you're complicating it again by copying content to a flash drive and sticking it into a DVD player that may or may not be able to play it.

My setup is as follows:
- SickBeard (series) + CouchPotato (movies) + SABNZBd.
- Postprocessing configured to automatically copy all downloads to a predefined folder structure on a dedicated disk.
- Postprocessing configured to rename all downloads to the format that I prefer.
- Western Digital media player connected to the network setup to stream from said disk.

All I have to do when I get home is turn on my TV, press refresh on my WD player, and all my stuff is available to watch. Automatically sorted into movies and series.
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I'm having a problem with Sickbeard/SAB
After the file is downloaded, I cant get it to automatically move into the correct folder etc.
I know it's got to do with the categories/scripts but I'm not sure what I should be changing.

Can anyone help?
 
wonduhboy said:
I'm having a problem with Sickbeard/SAB
After the file is downloaded, I cant get it to automatically move into the correct folder etc.
I know it's got to do with the categories/scripts but I'm not sure what I should be changing.

Can anyone help?
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/res :erm:

well what guide did you follow?
 
There are 2 ways people do this.

1. Most use the post processing script that you add to sabnzbd
- I personally dislike this method

2. If you have set Sickbeard to add it into a specific category when it injects the nzb into Sabnzbd you need to 2 things
- set sabnzbd to move this category to a specific folder, lets say "Series". When the file is downloaded and extracted, Sabnzbd will do this to Downloads/Completed/Series (if you pointed the "Series" category to the "Series" folder)
- set sickbeard's postprocessing to monitor this folder (Downloads/Completed/Series) for files, and do the moving and renaming for you.
- I much prefer this method, and is what I am using without any problems
 
Tinuva said:
There are 2 ways people do this.

1. Most use the post processing script that you add to sabnzbd
- I personally dislike this method

2. If you have set Sickbeard to add it into a specific category when it injects the nzb into Sabnzbd you need to 2 things
- set sabnzbd to move this category to a specific folder, lets say "Series". When the file is downloaded and extracted, Sabnzbd will do this to Downloads/Completed/Series (if you pointed the "Series" category to the "Series" folder)
- set sickbeard's postprocessing to monitor this folder (Downloads/Completed/Series) for files, and do the moving and renaming for you.
- I much prefer this method, and is what I am using without any problems
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thanks for this, referring to for point 2:

I have set SB to add it to 'tv', so all my downloads now say TV (but no script running on them)
How do I tell SAB where to put these files (and extract them? - currently they aren't being extracted)

- set sickbeard's postprocessing to monitor this folder (Downloads/Completed/Series) for files, and do the moving and renaming for you.
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Do you mind giving more detail on how to do this?
 
wonduhboy said:
Do you mind giving more detail on how to do this?
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In SABnzbd...
1. Go Config / Categories.
2. Add a category with the following settings.
Category: tv
Priority: High (I make mine High because TV Shows must take priority over anything else)
Processing: Default
Folder/Path: Make this your completed downloads folder to TV Shows. Mine is D:\SABnzbd\Complete\TVShows

Save Changes.

In Sickbeard...
1. Go Config / Post Processing
2. Set TV Download Dir to the same folder you used for Folder/Path in SABnzbd setting above.
3. Untick Keep Original Files
4. Tick Move Associated Files
5. Tick Rename Episodes
6. Tick Scan and Process
7. Set Name Pattern to Custom
8. In the textbox under Name Pattern paste "Season %0S/s%0Se%0E". This is my preference though. Make it what you want.

Save Changes.

EDIT: Forgot that in SB you must tell SABnzbd what category to use when it pushes through an NZB download.
1. Go Config / Search Settings.
2. Set SABnzbd Category to "tv". This must match the category setup you did for SABnzbd above.

Save Changes.
 
Mike Smit said:
In SABnzbd...
1. Go Config / Categories.
2. Add a category with the following settings.
Category: tv
Priority: High (I make mine High because TV Shows must take priority over anything else)
Processing: Default
Folder/Path: Make this your completed downloads folder to TV Shows. Mine is D:\SABnzbd\Complete\TVShows

Save Changes.

In Sickbeard...
1. Go Config / Post Processing
2. Set TV Download Dir to the same folder you used for Folder/Path in SABnzbd setting above.
3. Untick Keep Original Files
4. Tick Move Associated Files
5. Tick Rename Episodes
6. Tick Scan and Process
7. Set Name Pattern to Custom
8. In the textbox under Name Pattern paste "Season %0S/s%0Se%0E". This is my preference though. Make it what you want.

Save Changes.
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thanks!
So I don't have to set the processing or scripting at all (i.e. sabtosickbeard.exe)

I'll give this a bash and see if it works on my next download.

And one more thing: Do I have to have SB running for it to move the files / work it's magic?
 
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wonduhboy said:
thanks!
So I don't have to set the processing or scripting at all (i.e. sabtosickbeard.exe)

I'll give this a bash and see if it works on my next download.
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No scripting. I did the scripting in the early days as I thought it was the only way to do post processing. Then I discovered the above way and it made things sooooooo much easier to setup.
And have faith. It will work. Most of us do it this way ;)
 
Mike Smit said:
No scripting. I did the scripting in the early days as I thought it was the only way to do post processing. Then I discovered the above way and it made things sooooooo much easier to setup.
And have faith. It will work. Most of us do it this way ;)
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Thanks again for the help!
One last question, do I have to have SB open to get it to move files?
 
wonduhboy said:
Thanks again for the help!
One last question, do I have to have SB open to get it to move files?
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It should be running in the background 24/7 else it won't be able to pick up new episodes and send them to SABnzbd. So you don't have to have your browser open, but it must be running.
 
Thread resurrection.

Guys I need some help please. I am trying to set up xbmc with my HP microserver and have come to the conclusion that I need to have my content properly organised for it all to work well together. I have been using sickbeard and SABnzb for ages but it has always pretty much just dumped everything into a single folder. I don't care about salvaging the old content but I need to fix it now so I can save myself headaches later.

What and how should I go about doing it? I tried in the past but it ended up being a massive mess which is why I gave up last time.

Sorry I know this is an annoying question but I have already received a thorough openelec+xbmc beatdown this weekend and I'm a bit gatvol of sukkeling.
 
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