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I am having a problem with movie flies downloaded with the latest version of sabnabd, the program has downlaoded and unpacked and placed the movie in a folder, but when I play the file the movie stops about 5 to 7 minutes before the end. At first I thought it might have been the player but I have used others and the same thing happens. I have noticed that each movie seems to smaller in size than what is in the info of the download from NZBs.org, eg meant to be 10.3gb but is 9.83gb. Hopefully some body understands what im try to say.

Thanks in advance.

The larger size is due to repair data in the so-called par2 files.
If the download completes, verifies and unpacks and still
won't play, there are only two possible causes:
- the poster uploaded a useless file
- your mediaplayer isn't capable of playing it

Hi shypike, thanks for the reply,
This is what I have done this morning, I setup sabnzbd on my laptop and downloaded exactly the same file, after it unpacked I played it through WMP and it plays fully. I transferred the file to my main PC and it also plays on it, ruling out any problem with the media player. On my main pc I used another program called mimo (from giganews) and downloaded the same file, on completion it plays fully on WMP. The problem defiantly appears to be with sabnzb, as I have said this has happened with most the movie files that I have been downloading recently. I have even unistalled it restarted my pc and reinstalled it but the problem is still there.

SABnzbd doesn't touch the actual content of media files.
Most of the work is done by par2 and unrar.
On which operating system does SABnzbd run?
Can you email an example of a suspected NZB file to bugs@sabnzbd.org ?
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