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Radar and Sonarr here with Overseerr as an UI for my wife. Bazarr for subs, jackett as a client for torrent sites, unpackerr for unpacking zips. Good old Transm

Radar and Sonarr here with Overseerr as an UI for my wife. Bazarr for subs, jackett as a client for torrent sites, unpackerr for unpacking zips. Good old Transmission as download client.

ashconnor 3y ago
It's a shame unpackerr is needed. BitTorrent works better on large uncompressed files.
- appplication 3y ago
  Interesting, why is that?
  - ashconnor 3y ago
    - Smaller torrent filesize - Clients prevent forcing priority if there's only one file - Checksum checking is built in - Less work per client [0] - Redundant decompression required by everyone that grabs the file [0] - https://blog.codinghorror.com/everybody-loves-bittorrent/ https://blog.codinghorror.com/everybody-loves-bittorrent/
    - appplication 3y ago
      What does the torrent treat a compressed uncompressed file differently? I would have imagined the torrent framework would be agnostic to the actual file encoding.
      - ashconnor 3y ago
        To clarify it works better with big files vs small files. Compression has no impact.
        appplication 3y ago
        Is that just efficiency (per byte, etc) or would the network actually work better (faster real downloads for larger files vs smaller)? I’m imagining there’s some tradeoff at some point.
        ashconnor 3y ago
        From what I've read the swarm works better on one large file vs many smaller ones. I am verbatim passing along what I've read and have no data to substantiate that claim. Hopefully someone that has a better understanding of the protocol and client implementations can weigh in.
- sebazzz 3y ago
  I suppose Usenet is still in use and distributors can use the same release regardless of medium.
drexlspivey 3y ago
Why do you need a special program to unpack rars? I just use qbittorrent and put this command in the "run external program on torrent finished" box: 7z x "%F/*.rar" -o"%F/"
- sebazzz 3y ago
  Unpackerr integrates with Radarr and Sonarr and can handle various archive types, retries, split archives, etc.

Radar and Sonarr here with Overseerr as an UI for my wife. Bazarr for subs, jackett as a client for torrent sites, unpackerr for unpacking zips. Good old Transmission as download client.

ashconnor 3y ago

It's a shame unpackerr is needed. BitTorrent works better on large uncompressed files.

appplication 3y ago
Interesting, why is that?
- ashconnor 3y ago
  - Smaller torrent filesize - Clients prevent forcing priority if there's only one file - Checksum checking is built in - Less work per client [0] - Redundant decompression required by everyone that grabs the file [0] - https://blog.codinghorror.com/everybody-loves-bittorrent/ https://blog.codinghorror.com/everybody-loves-bittorrent/
  - appplication 3y ago
    What does the torrent treat a compressed uncompressed file differently? I would have imagined the torrent framework would be agnostic to the actual file encoding.
    - ashconnor 3y ago
      To clarify it works better with big files vs small files. Compression has no impact.
      - appplication 3y ago
        Is that just efficiency (per byte, etc) or would the network actually work better (faster real downloads for larger files vs smaller)? I’m imagining there’s some tradeoff at some point.
        ashconnor 3y ago
        From what I've read the swarm works better on one large file vs many smaller ones. I am verbatim passing along what I've read and have no data to substantiate that claim. Hopefully someone that has a better understanding of the protocol and client implementations can weigh in.
sebazzz 3y ago
I suppose Usenet is still in use and distributors can use the same release regardless of medium.

drexlspivey 3y ago

Why do you need a special program to unpack rars? I just use qbittorrent and put this command in the "run external program on torrent finished" box: 7z x "%F/*.rar" -o"%F/"

sebazzz 3y ago
Unpackerr integrates with Radarr and Sonarr and can handle various archive types, retries, split archives, etc.