Nzb support

[vfxjbg]

Hi guys,

The torrent support in the download module is a very good feature !!!
But to complete that, I'd love to see the support of nzb files (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NZB).

I'm not developper... but I imagine that should not be too complicated to integrate the open-source cross-platform binary newsreader written in Python : Sabnzbd+ (http://www.sabnzbd.org/)

Cheers

[tsella]

that's pretty cool. you may be able to use http://code.google.com/p/xbmc-torrrent-controller/

try putting script:// with script path in sources.xml (see http://forum.boxee.tv/showthread.php?t=52&highlight=sources.xml)

[Gamester17]

There was a very cool NZB concept idea posted in the XBMC forums a little over a year ago, with a independent programmer saying that he had it almost all working (with direct streaming NZB to XBMC with even RARed playback to XBMC for Xbox) but then dropped of the face of the planet. You can read about that idea here:
http://xbmc.org/forum/showthread.php?t=25627

As for NZB python related scripts/plugins there are already a few available for XBMC:
http://xbmc.org/forum/showthread.php?t=32482
http://xbmc.org/forum/showthread.php?t=28077
http://xbmc.org/forum/showthread.php?t=22139
http://xbmc.org/forum/showthread.php?t=30371
http://xbmc.org/forum/showthread.php?t=22469
http://xbmc.org/forum/showthread.php?t=31160

Other non-XBMC python scripts that you might be able to leverage:
http://sebsauvage.net/python/newsarchiver.py
http://www.enyo.de/fw/scripts/get-article.py

[frankboxeetv]

I found this thread concerning the XBMC SABnzbd+ Python Script which seems to do a good job browsing and searching newzbin using rss feeds.

http://forums.sabnzbd.org/index.php?topic=494.0

This script was made to use sabnzbd+ to do the actual downloading. A more on-demand solution would be to "stream" the nzb by downloading the first part of the rar archive, extracting it and start to play the video. Then continue downloading in the background and append the next part of the video and so on.