SABnzbd

[piccioni]

Excuse me for posting again, I know I post alot here, but I like to think at least most of it is relevant to installing SABnzbd on Synology units...

Jokemeister, you suggested I could move the files I downloaded yesterday (the ones that ended up where I couldn't find them) via telnet. Now, I'v putty'd into the box as root, so far so good, but when i try to go to where SABnzbd yesterday told me the files where downloaded to, I can't get that far. The files are to be located at ""/var/packages/sab2/target/sab/volume1/Volym 1/SABnzbd/Downloads/complete/", so I tried (my first-ever ssh session, so bear with me):

cd /var/

success! I.e. it didn't report any errors, so i assume i got into the dir. But when i try to type:

cd /var/packages/sab2/target/sab/volume1/Volym 1/SABnzbd/Downloads/complete/

I get the error "-ssh: cd: can't cd to /var/packages/sab2/target/sab/volume1/". So it seems my files IS really gone, unless its hidden in some way. When i go to "/var/packages/sab2/target/sab/" and type "ls -al" I see no "Volym 1" dir, just alot of .txt, .cmd, files etc.

[ColdFire]

Hey all,

I am also having issues with download speed in SABnzb. Lets get the basics out of the way:
Synology 411+
SABnzbd Version: 0.6.15
ISP: VirginMedia 100mb (was on 50mb up until this week)
Usernethost: NewsDemon

I swear I used to get about 6MB/s in SAB on the Synology. Now I only get a max of 4MB/s and usually 2-3MB/s. This is not a massive issue for me as its only grabbing shows and stuff from Sickbeard and they are normally done before I wake up anyway! What annoys me is that if I use the Synology downloader I get a full 11.5-12MB/s using the same Usenet settings.

So occasionally I add a larger file like an 8GB file via the SAB interface (from a remote location) so its downloaded when I get home. The problem is that because of the slow speed this 8GB file takes forever to download, but would be a quick download using the Synology downloader.

If I downloaded through the Synology interface its a lot more effort to get to the interface and start the download. It also does not integrate with Sickbeard and my other apps using the SAB API makes everything easier but the Synology downloader does not have this easy operation.

I have tried using 1-50 Usenet connections, tried SSL on and off, tried different ports and nothing changes. The settings I am currently using are the same as the Synology downloader which is normal port, ssl on and 50 connections.

Does anyone have any ideas to improve the speed? I have not added/changed anything on my NAS recently to increase the CPU/Memory load. The Indexer only runs on my video share, which is massive but does not change by that much daily.

Thanks,

ColdFire

[fender4645]

I gotta ask: what are you folks using as your ISP? FIOS? 12MB/s is close to 100Mb/s. Crazy fast...

[ColdFire]

@Fender4645: VirginMedia 100Mb/s DOCSIS3 Fibre connection. It gets upgraded to 120Mb/s in the summer... It was 50Mb/s but they are upgrading their network and customers to 100Mb as a part apology for crap service and as a PR stunt.

[piccioni]

I was annoyed by my download speeds when I had "just" 100mbit. Nowdays it is 1gbit, with an average upstream of 250mbit (so its not really full duplex). I live in Sweden and has an ISP called Bredbandsbolaget (a.k.a. BBB). I believe they've extended to other EU countries too by now, tho I'm not sure (but I seem to recall a post somewhere on some forum sometime when a .nl user tried to set up his BBB webmail to work in Thunderbird, though I might be mistaken). Its pretty well known (at least within the so-called "scene", cause it had very bad routing to specially Asian countries a few years back. All fixed now tho, and the routing is fine, even to the US (I have Giganews as usenet provider, and I can get the same speeds from their US server as their EU server). Ofcourse the only way I can get these speeds are through fiberoptics, so no ADSL or ADSL2++ or whatever its called. I feel bad for people that can only get at most 100mbit via ADSL (and often an upstream only a tenth of their download). We live in the 21st century after all...

I also have the newest kind of 4G portable broadband with a small USB stick-modem, also from BBB, and I'm maxing out that connection too when I'm not at home (its supposed to be around 80mbit downstream, i get an average of some 7-10mb/sec downloading "on-the-go". Not too bad.

I remember when I had only ADSL, and a downstream of max 59k/sec (I was still downloading DVDs with that speed, I can't believe how i managed! And WOW what a beautiful day it was when my then ISP upgraded their net to support ADSL+ or ADSL2+ or whatever it was called, and I got a download speed of 840kb/sec! Now i look back at that and feel...almost nostalgic. Then, some 10+ years ago, the thing to download was not DivX (XviD hadn't come around yet), and people experimented with the DivX 3.11 "low" codec using SBC (smart bitrate control) in NanDub (a version of VirtualDub, if you're familiar with MPEG-4 encoding...), that was the very first way to do 2-psss-encoding in MPEG-4, vastly improving the quality (though it still sucked). The way to go, and the biggest movie "scene" releases was SVCD's (Super-VideoCD, a standard most (if not all) DVD-players can handle, since it uses MPEG-2 in either 480x480 @ 29.976fps (for NTSC) or 480x576 @ 25fps (for PAL). The bitrate for the SVCD standard allows a maximum of 1940kbit/sec, and the audio is MPEG-1 in stereo at either 192kbit/sec (unoficial, not adhering to the true SVCD specs, but msny releases used that to save space) or the official 224kbit/s. SVCD releases was typically divided up in 2CD-R's (DVD burners weren't even heard of, and when the first of those hit the market they were extremely expensive) for a movie under 2 hours long. My god, that was times...

Before SVCD became "scene-standard", and DivX was only done with a single-pass encode (which produced unwatchable files), the releases were regular VCD's, adhering to the official VCD standard (res of 352x240 pixels for NTSC and 352x288 for PAL, fixed video bitrate at 1150kbit/s using the MPEG-1 standard (no variable bitrate support, as in the later SVCD standard), and a fixed audio bitrate at 224kbit/s using MPEG-1 Layer 2, a sort of fore-runner to todays MP3, which actually also is MPEG-1. VCD's can be played by almost all DVD-players, a long time ago you coulf BUY SVCD's and (before that) VCD's with a movie instead of a DVD (mainly popular in asia though). A correctly done DVDRip to VCD, using the best applications available produced files that were comparable to VHS quality (though with much better sound). SVCD was considered "halfway" between VHS and DVD. I still got my collection of some 3000+ SVCD titles burned on CD-R's, i don't know what to do with them. They take up sooo much shelf-space, but i'm nostalgic and dont wanna get rid of them, even if I have most, if not all, titles on DVD or even more and more BluRay now...

Oops, sorry for getting into video encoding and stuff in here, i couldn't help myself... I'm a geek when it comes to video encoding in different formats, so...well...nevermind.

[jokemeister]

Hi Coldfire, since I can't get anywhere near those speeds to max out my DS, (stuck with ADSL) someone else is going to have to give some feedback based on their own experiences.....and here I was thinking how awesome 850kB/s was compared to what I was getting with torrents. Compared to you guys, Telstra's service is utter crap.

[sraph]

Hey everyone,

I am a bit of a noob here. I have had my ds212 for about 2weeks now and I wanted to setup sabnzbd. I found this forum http://forum.synology.com/enu/viewtopic.php?f=190&t=50593 pretty helpful and led me to this site http://www.synocommunity.com/faq#addSource hope this helps

[chusac]

I had the problem above where I forgot to change my default SABnzbd default folder settings before downloading. My downloads ended up here: /var/packages/sab2/target/sab/Downloads/complete/.

To move folders under the /complete/ directory to a different directory I did this:

- logged in as root via SSH -> this must be enabled under Terminal in the Control Panel first.
- cd /var/packages/sab2/target/sab/Downloads/complete/ -> you can get this path if you click on your download in SABnzbd.
- ls to see the files and directories (or ls -la for more info)
- moved with this command:
mv -f /var/packages/sab2/target/sab/Downloads/complete/xxxx /volume1/video/SABnzbd/complete/xxxx
*where xxxx is the folder of your download and /volume1/video/SABnzbd/complete/xxxx was the location of the more accessible share that I chose to move it to.

Hope this helps people out.

Chusac

[ColdFire]

@jokemeister: Ok no worries. I have since re-installed SAB and its running faster now, not sure why though... My average speed is now several MB's faster than before so at the moment its ok. Its still not what it should be but its good enough for me

[bipedal]

I'm running the SAB/SB/Python packages from http://synoblog.superzebulon.org on my DS1511+(DSM3.2) and have had no problems at all with any of them. I have noticed, however, that his packages haven't been updated in several months and now we are at DSM4.0.

Has anyone updated their DSM to 4.0 and had any problems with these packages? Did anyone have to uninstall/re-install them or anything? I'm hesitant to upgrade to 4.0 until I know that these apps are going to work.

[bud77]

SuperZbulon ain't active anymore. Checkout the synocommunity thread

[bipedal]

SuperZbulon ain't active anymore. Checkout the synocommunity thread

Thanks for the info. He really should update the front page of his site and mention this!

[collaborator]

Hello just wanted let you know I have 209+ ad I did upgrade from DSM 3.2.1955 to 4.0.2228 without any problem.

I had Python,SABNzbd,sickbeard,couchpotato and headphones installed from superzebulon repository before upgrade and they still are all intact and working after upgrade.

[bipedal]

Confirmed, I did the upgrade from 3.2 for 4.0 and all the SZ suite is working fine. I'll probably migrate them all over to the new repository at some point but I'm happy that I could just leave them working as is.

[F2a]

Hi, my max download speed with Sabnzbd+ is 2.1MB/sec . My internet connection speed is much faster at 50/25Mb/sec . I'm thinking of upgrading to the 212+ to increase my download speed. What is the max download speed for the 212+?