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I am trying to find a script or something that will take my downloaded torrents (always .rars) and extract them upon completion and move the extracted video file to a specified folder. This way the original .rar set can be left in it's original location for seeding, but the extracted video is moved to an XBMC aware location ready for immediate viewing.
I found a couple that will automate the extraction, but they all seem to leave the extracted file in the same location as the download. Anyone know of anything that does what I'm after?
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I am in the same boat. Hope some one smarter than me can help.
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Question is why you need it?
XBMC can easily play RAR files.
Just point your movie location directory in XBMC to download dir.
I even have separate directories for Movies and Series.
I use RSS feeds to download movies and have configured to download them in "/Series/<Series name>/" location.
And all the rest (which is movies) go to "/Movies/<movie name>" location.
I also have some more advanced variant, but that involves a web server, userscript and my own RSS feed for movie downloads. If you would like to know more about that, I'll be glad to tell you.
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I don't like the rar's either, but the tracker I use has everything in rar's. I've already automated the downloading vis uTorrent's RSS downloader like Evanrich showed and I have managed to get them to extract once downloaded, but the problem is getting them moved. I don't want to simply point XBMC to the folder I download them too because I want to seed them and if I extract into the same folder, then XBMC will pick up duplicates. I don't download movies so this is only for shows.
Shipis - if you have anything that would help accomplish this, I'm all ears and would appreciate anything you could do to point me in the right direction.
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I use RARs on my ATV and openelec.tv without any problems.
Btw, I comprehend my folders containing rars as single file.
About moving MKVs - as I understood you get them extracted from RARs when download finishes. That means you can write a batch job, which looks for all *.mkv files in your download location and moves them to your movie location. You can run this batch using scheduled task. Also, at the end of this batch you can add code, that will update your XBMC library.
What OS are you running?
Maybe I can help you write such batch if you don't know how.
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You shouldn't have problems with that.
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I honestly don't remember anymore. I now use Usenet along with Sick Beard instead and it works great. I was never able to get torrent downloading completely automated and that prompted me to move to Sick Beard shortly after I posted in this thread..
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ok thanks for the quick reply ill look into sick beard
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Sick beard will work with Torrents as well but I don't know if it will extract the RAR.
