Use one unique folder for complete and finished downloads
Posted: September 15th, 2013, 11:43 pm
Hi,
I'm new to sabnzbd and so far I'm thinking it's great. The only thing that I doesn't like is the fact that it forces you to use different folders for incomplete and finished downloads. The advantage of using one unique folder for complete and incomplete downloads is that you can, for example, watch a movie while it's being downloaded.
In linux, with commands like the following, you don't need to wait until the download is finished to start watching a movie:
BUT if sabnzbd moves the files when the download is finished, the movie will stop because the unrar command will fail because the rest of the files doesn't exist anymore. In other words, I can't watch a movie while downloading with sabnzbd as I do with other more simplistic newsreaders, because it just move the files away when the download is finished. I've also tried to trick the program by creating a symbolic link for "incomplete" to the same as "finished" (or so), but there's some verification in the program that deletes the link and recreates the folder. Furthermore, it would be also nice to have an option to download the files linearly.
Thanks,
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I'm new to sabnzbd and so far I'm thinking it's great. The only thing that I doesn't like is the fact that it forces you to use different folders for incomplete and finished downloads. The advantage of using one unique folder for complete and incomplete downloads is that you can, for example, watch a movie while it's being downloaded.
In linux, with commands like the following, you don't need to wait until the download is finished to start watching a movie:
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unrar p -kb -inul some_file_wih_a_movie.part001.rar some_movie.mkv | mplayer -
Thanks,
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