Inaccurate Quality Sliders

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Hi there. I recently set up Quality Definitions for 720p and 1080p content. For HDTV-720p I set a maximum quality of 1.8GB but Sonarr did not grab a 1.6GB show. It wasn’t until I set a maximum of 2.2GB did it grab the show. The following are screenshots to show my testing method. I went up in 200MB increments until it grabbed the file. Shouldn’t a maximum limit of 1.8GB have grabbed the 1.6GB file? Why did I have to slide the slider up to 2.2GB? This sounds like a bug to me.

Original HDTV-720p Quality Settings:
Manual Search window showing file details
Rejection error
Quality Settings

Upped the HDTV-720p Quality Settings to 2.0GB:
Quality Settings
New error message

Upped the HDTV-720p Quality Settings to 2.2GB:
Download Success
Final quality settings

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Quality size limits are calculated per minute, with examples for 30 and 60 minute episodes, Falling Skies has a 45 minute run time on TheTVDB, so the maximum would be in between the 30 and 60 minutes shown.

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Ohhhh!!! I got it now. I didn’t think about a show being a fraction of the maximum time and therefore a fraction of the maximum file size. e.g. Maximum quality of 2.2GB for 60 minutes = 1.72GB for a 47 minute show. It makes total sense now.

Thank you, and sorry for the trouble.

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