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Hi all

I was wondering if there is a way to achieve the following?

I download the majority of content as SD, but now that 720p HEVC 265 is more often than not available and about the same filesize, I would prefer where possible to get that instead. Is there a way to download 720p HEVC as a preference, then if there is no file available for say 2 days (HEVC takes a bit longer to get uploaded I’ve found) download the SD version? At the moment I’m doing it manually where I can but that’s tedious and Sonarr beats me to it a lot of the time.

Cheers

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There is no way to prefer HEVC. You can use a delay profile to delay grabbing, but it’d be any HDTV 720p release, not limited to HEVC only.

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Hi Markus, thanks for the reply.

Are there any plans to add this sort of granular control to the grabbing process ?

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Nothing short term, but there is this:

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You could run a second “fire and forget” sonarr instance. I do the same for my nzb versus torrent delay and grab wishes.

First instance you set hevc as a required word, second instance you set sd as allowed with a 2 day grab delay.

My second instance runs in docker and has no write access to the TV directory, so isn’t able to import anything. That prevents conflicts with the primary instance.

Still figuring out the correct api call syntax for the rescanseries to limit duplicate grabs.

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