Download files are obfuscated or long series of characters

[sander]

Oh, you might be right: maybe VLC stuttering was caused by something else. I will retry a download on a more defined system.

[OldSchool2121[[]

That is what I suspected, however, the same files downloaded directly or by zip work fine. Additionally, it is literally 90% of NZBs created through my EasyNews account have this issue. I reached out to them but their response was non-responsive as usual the last few years. In any event, is there a better provider with more reliable NZB creation? Another way to create the NZB file to test? This has occurred on no less than 250 files! What a waste of bandwidth.

[sander]

Ah, good news! Just use SAB 3.0.0 and you'll be fine!

Reason: those files are obfuscated rar files. And SAB3 does great deobfuscatation

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2020-06-29 19:17:36,479::DEBUG::[postproc:905] Detected volume-number 15 from RAR-header: /home/sander/Downloads/incomplete/poging2/'d02f325616a37089b137694828f4fad5' yEnc (01+66) 
2020-06-29 19:17:36,481::DEBUG::[postproc:905] Detected volume-number 12 from RAR-header: /home/sander/Downloads/incomplete/poging2/'2f00a74aeed47f725f0778c28cd66ccc' yEnc (01+66) 
2020-06-29 19:17:36,483::DEBUG::[postproc:905] Detected volume-number 5 from RAR-header: /home/sander/Downloads/incomplete/poging2/'d68316d17a48a23087d68762fcb59b07' yEnc (01+66) 
2020-06-29 19:17:36,485::DEBUG::[postproc:905] Detected volume-number 17 from RAR-header: /home/sander/Downloads/incomplete/poging2/'a4cb4caece78ba90589191bd40d47285' yEnc (01+38) 
2020-06-29 19:17:36,486::DEBUG::[postproc:905] Detected volume-number 13 from RAR-header: /home/sander/Downloads/incomplete/poging2/'2e041048c39e5b587cefad2ee72295f6' yEnc (01+66) 
2020-06-29 19:17:36,488::DEBUG::[postproc:905] Detected volume-number 11 from RAR-header: /home/sander/Downloads/incomplete/poging2/'0171099de17b8458bbb507621d90d6d8' yEnc (01+66) 
2020-06-29 19:17:36,489::DEBUG::[postproc:905] Detected volume-number 8 from RAR-header: /home/sander/Downloads/incomplete/poging2/'07edc9fb96cd278b17ade20f12572bb0' yEnc (01+66) 
2020-06-29 19:17:36,491::DEBUG::[postproc:905] Detected volume-number 7 from RAR-header: /home/sander/Downloads/incomplete/poging2/'8686309a23ae6b333fcc660f9dd0ec1e' yEnc (01+66) 
2020-06-29 19:17:36,492::DEBUG::[postproc:905] Detected volume-number 6 from RAR-header: /home/sander/Downloads/incomplete/poging2/'fbf1c29af104b11235b4d67395a9af14' yEnc (01+66) 
2020-06-29 19:17:36,493::DEBUG::[postproc:905] Detected volume-number 10 from RAR-header: /home/sander/Downloads/incomplete/poging2/'11437dec91d073c15e7debcf906bf40b' yEnc (01+66) 
2020-06-29 19:17:36,495::DEBUG::[postproc:905] Detected volume-number 2 from RAR-header: /home/sander/Downloads/incomplete/poging2/'fdc9b935f65ef7de2e2f5ce87944384c' yEnc (01+66) 
2020-06-29 19:17:36,496::DEBUG::[postproc:905] Detected volume-number 9 from RAR-header: /home/sander/Downloads/incomplete/poging2/'6b5447c6387831e53cd269f2a933ea93' yEnc (01+66) 
2020-06-29 19:17:36,497::DEBUG::[postproc:905] Detected volume-number 4 from RAR-header: /home/sander/Downloads/incomplete/poging2/'50912fbe6eab510da0c5ec1f449afaa4' yEnc (01+66) 
2020-06-29 19:17:36,498::DEBUG::[postproc:905] Detected volume-number 14 from RAR-header: /home/sander/Downloads/incomplete/poging2/'93f063904f3b36bdf358da1eca325855' yEnc (01+66) 
2020-06-29 19:17:36,499::DEBUG::[postproc:905] Detected volume-number 3 from RAR-header: /home/sander/Downloads/incomplete/poging2/'13a017248aad24c3e8cdc0cbf52b7ea2' yEnc (01+66) 
2020-06-29 19:17:36,500::DEBUG::[postproc:905] Detected volume-number 1 from RAR-header: /home/sander/Downloads/incomplete/poging2/'0118b10cbe30ef270836d94fc6b9db61' yEnc (01+66) 
2020-06-29 19:17:36,501::DEBUG::[postproc:905] Detected volume-number 16 from RAR-header: /home/sander/Downloads/incomplete/poging2/'8696c566a523699b155f1c5b15859cc4' yEnc (01+66)

So ... run SAB3 and you should be fine. See https://sabnzbd.org/downloads

SAB3 is available for Windows, MacOS, Ubuntu and source. At this moment, not yet for NAS devices.

[OldSchool2121[[]

So I updated to the 3 Beta and it seems better. Still, about 20% failure which I don't understand because if I zip the file instead of NZB it downloads fine. Seems the files on the newsfeed must be fine but the translation to NZB and then to download causes issues.
I looked through setup and wonder if this may be causing some of the issues.
1. I have tried having deobsfucate.py script on and off and not sure this makes any difference. Would you recommend running this script or not?
2. I had the processing set to repair which I think might be part of the issue. I put it back to unpack and this seems to have helped.
3. I have "check before download" checked but it doesn't seem to find any issues on those that ultimately can't be unpacked. I think this is because it is looking for parts to download, not if unpacking will work.
4. I listed exe and com in the unwanted extensions but I don't think this is likely an issue.
5. I have direct unpack set to start during downloads.
6. I have nfo, nzb, sfv in the cleanup list. Interestingly I find that I often have zip or obfuscated files left in the folder with the actual file I wanted. I am afraid if I put those file types in the cleanup list it will delete them before the unpacking is complete. Is this a real issue?
7. I have replace dots in folder name seleted which seems to work but I can't figure out a way to do the same on the files themself. Not likely related.

Appreciate everyone's help and glad I'm at least about 60% better so far.

[safihre]

Could you share an example NZB that is failing with 3.0.0?

[OldSchool2121[[]

I would love to share an NZB but the two I have are too large apparently to be placed on any of the 4 bins I tried. One is 446 pages long. Is there another way to get this NZB to you? Is there a way to direct you to the newsgroup file assuming the NZB you create would be same as one I created? I am going to try some additional random files and see how many fail.

[safihre]

You can zip/rar them and send them to me at [email protected]

[safihre]

I received a new testing-NZB from OldSchool2121 and it did reveal a bug!
In this case the post was super-obfuscated, but not parsed by the RAR-Renamer.

Will be fixed in 3.0.0RC2

[OldSchool2121[[]

I must tell you all that I have had a long run of near zero luck with using forums. This forum has completely changed my view of the process. To rehash...I learned about sites where I can post code (well small bits at least), I learned there was an update the product wasn't finding, and an administrator took the time to take my issues seriously and use it to improve the product! Can't ask for more. Thank You ALL and sorry I'm not the sharpest crayon in the newsfeed box.

[safihre]