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Everytime I try to download a mkv file (via a nzb file) the sab service just stops on my Pi. All other file types seem ok. I can download the mkv using newshosting but it's a PITA having to restart sab, delete download from queue and manually download it....

I'm surprised no one else has reported this and am wondering if I am doing something wrong somehow?

All files are equal to SABnzbd, it doesn't actually do anything with an mkv.
In fact, most of the time the mkv is created by the unrar program.
It could be that it's simply a matter of download size.
Are your mkv downloads significantly larger than other downloads?

shypike wrote:All files are equal to SABnzbd, it doesn't actually do anything with an mkv.
In fact, most of the time the mkv is created by the unrar program.
It could be that it's simply a matter of download size.
Are your mkv downloads significantly larger than other downloads?

Weird. I didn't think they would be any different. But I never had this problem before v1.0.0 - I'm not 100% sure exactly when it started. It seems to get up to the same point in the movie every time and then the service stops. Re-start and repeat.

Yes - it could be 1.2gb of so whereas if the file is in a rar file it's split up into tiny pieces.

Hmm. Can I limit the maximum file download size?

You can prevent oversized items with Config->Special->size_limit
1G will refuse any job over 1G.

So if I set to 1G - that will stop any one file of 1G so if it's a multipart rar and a 7G total download it should still download ok as long as any one file is not bigger than 1G?

No, the 1G is then the max job-size.
Not everyone wants 50G BluRays

I don't know which file system you use, but be aware that
FAT (the Windows default) cannot store files above 2G.

If you were not experiencing issues with the same NZBs and 0.7.20
then maybe you should try 0.7.20 again.
You never know if some bug snuck in, that affects Raspberry(-like) systems.
BTW: how much memory does the system have?

shypike wrote:No, the 1G is then the max job-size.
Not everyone wants 50G BluRays

I don't know which file system you use, but be aware that
FAT (the Windows default) cannot store files above 2G.

If you were not experiencing issues with the same NZBs and 0.7.20
then maybe you should try 0.7.20 again.
You never know if some bug snuck in, that affects Raspberry(-like) systems.
BTW: how much memory does the system have?

LOL It's been a while since FAT was the Windows default.

The file size is causing no problems other than sabnzdb - my Pi is running Raspbian with no problems at all. It's only a problem with files over 1G (not 50G LOL) Yeah I have never had any issue till version 1. Maybe I should go back to 0.7.20

Thanks.