Downloads Have Incorrect File Exension

raidflex · April 25, 2016, 9:56pm

I have noticed that with some shows the file extension is incorrect and will be a set of numbers like .1427, .1425 etc. If I manually change the extension to .mkv, then Sonarr will finish the post process successfully and there are no issues with playback. I am wondering if anyone else has seen this behavior.

Also if there is a way to exclude a certain file extension or prioritize certain indexers over another to prevent this issue. Ideally since the incorrect file extension are not all the same, if there was some way to exclude numbers from the file extension would be best.

Taloth · April 25, 2016, 10:13pm

Obfuscated releases. Usually accompanied by a rename.par2 file that you can use to fix it. There are probably post-processing scripts for that.

For the rest of the questions the answer is all no. Extensions aren’t known before downloading.

raidflex · April 26, 2016, 1:26pm

Thanks, any particular scripts that you would recommend? Also is there any plans to add prioritized indexing in the future?

Taloth · April 26, 2016, 2:27pm

Nope, I don’t use those script.

Also, prioritizing indexers doesn’t fix the problem.

raidflex · April 26, 2016, 2:35pm

True, prioritizing will not fix the issue but I can at least prioritize certain indexers that I have less of an issue with.

Mirx_NL · April 26, 2016, 4:53pm

Nzbget has native support for par2 rename.

raidflex · April 26, 2016, 9:57pm

Thanks, I will check out Nzbget.

markus101 · May 2, 2016, 9:36pm

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ToothPick · May 17, 2016, 5:27pm

Couldn’t find any post-processing scripts so I made my own for SABnzbd. It will check rename.par2 for the original name (extension) then rename the obfuscated file. I can post it tomorrow if you like?

PS: I suppose that par2 or quickpar or whatever can do this but I could not figure out how. So I made this.

raidflex · May 17, 2016, 5:46pm

That would be awesome if you have a script. Thanks.

ToothPick · May 18, 2016, 8:41am

Here is it [Hünter] PSPPS that renames obfuscated files let me know if you have any problems.

raidflex · May 18, 2016, 5:53pm

Will this script work on a freebsd system, in this case Freenas?

ToothPick · May 18, 2016, 6:07pm

Dont think so. Linux dont use batch. Uses bash but shouldn’t be hard for anyone that knows bash to convert it.

system · July 17, 2016, 6:12pm

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