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Might be a known bug in par2 between 0.6.8 and 0.6.12 (inclusive), I'm thinking of this one that was introduced in response to an issue dealing with a possible DoS against par2. If this is the case, version 0.6.13 should do better with default settings, and also comes with a new command line option...

Might be a known bug in par2 between 0.6.8 and 0.6.12 (inclusive), I'm thinking of this one that was introduced in response to an issue dealing with a possible DoS against par2. If this is the case, version 0.6.13 should do better with default settings, and also comes with a new command line option...

Done. Check your mail. In case you are not able to re-produce from enclosed NZB, the fileset I have saved is from a sequence of failed RAR and PAR2 files for one media file from astraweb. From: ionicencode Subject: re: unpacking/repair is failing a lot lately Date Sent: Sat, 25 Jul 2015 13:29:37 -0400

Disturbing news for Linux users. I'm running gentoo which adds significant variability because all packages are compiled locally using site specific flags. > emerge --info Portage 2.2.20 (python 3.4.1-final-0, default/linux/amd64/13.0, gcc-4.8.4, glibc-2.20-r2, 4.0.5-gentoo x86_64) ... ACCEPT_KEYWO...

More info .... managed to snatch another release where SABnzbd seemingly ignored the par2 files. Running the par2 program on my server, par2cmdline version 0.6.12, failed. It reported: Repair is required. 9 file(s) exist but are damaged. 35 file(s) are ok. You have 815 out of 913 data blocks availab...

I've noticed that error recovery has sometimes given up on handling seemingly perfectly valid downloads. To recover manually I simply ran an external par2 program to fix the damaged archive files and then saved the newly completed media file. I have logs for two such failures. Unless I'm missing som...