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Howdy!

Question 1:
I am new to sabnzbd and have a question about on-the-fly building of unpacked results like binreader does. I have not found such an option in sabznbd. Can sabnzbd do this?

binreader starts building the unpacked download result(s) at once when the first rar part has been downloaded. For example I can start watching a film at once while binreader adds new rar parts into it. Another advantage is that it reduces disk place used by the download because already added rar parts can be deleted. Otherwise you need double disk place for all rar parts and the unpacked result before the rar parts can be deleted. HD films can be 50GB in size and disk place on computers tends to be limited, my disks are always almost full anyway. To download a 50GB film you need 100GB free disk space if this feature is missing.

If sabnzbd is missing this feature then I would like to suggest this as a new option. It is a KILLER FEATURE I think! One of the best features of binreader!

Question 2:
Another unrelated question is about other than archive formats. Can sabnzbd handle other archive types that often are posted with .xNN or .zNN extensions? With some searching I did not find anything in the documentation about this.

Thanks for any answers!

SABnzbd can do more or less the same, as an experimental feature.
See: http://wiki.sabnzbd.org/configure-special-0-7, item allow_streaming.
From the Wiki.

Experimental option allowing streaming. You'll need a mediaplayer that can play from an incomplete set of unprocessed files. Jobs will not be post-processed, but remain in the temporary download folder and finally end up in History as "failed". From there you can either post-process the job after all or just delete everything.

Question 2.
These are not really "other" extensions, but oddly names rar files.
Release 0.8.0 (now as Release Candidate 1) can handle most of these.