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The other day, I downloaded a 54-day-old movie post. Everything went fine. SABnzbd put it back together with no errors, nothing. While watching it, I noticed two instances of pixelation, albeit brief. I watched the file on another PC, with a different viewer – same problem spots. So, I re-downloaded the nzb. Again, SABnzbd put it together fine. I went to watch it and the original problem spots were gone. But new pixelation instances had appeared.

Is this a textbook RAM problem?

I’m gonna check with memtest when I can afford the downtime – that thing takes so darn long! I guess I’ll also try rebuilding manually with GPar/Unrar, although I suspect new problem spots will appear. Any other suggestions or input?

Thanks in advance.


Oh, I’m running 0.5.6 pulling from Astraweb on Lucid it that matters any.

If both par2 and unrar agree that the downloaded material is correct then
it's either a problem introduced by the uploader or faulty hardware.
There's isn't much SABnzbd can do wrong without being caught by par2 or unrar.

Thanks for the quick response, shypike.

An uploader issue would result in the same problem spots every time, no? Therefore a RAM problem?

mr.sparkle wrote: An uploader issue would result in the same problem spots every time, no? Therefore a RAM problem?

It probably would.
I'd say it's a RAM problem.
Although I would expect more problems in the general working of your system.
Ah well, I spent weeks chasing after a bad RAM or bad  motherboard. In end it turned out to be a faulty videocard...

Just a little update,

I ran memtest+ 4.10 on the RAM and within seconds, errors galore

Well, problem solved, (unless that test gives false positives)

Thanks again