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So I’ll start off by saying I do use a graphical user interface (gui) on my debian laptop (Linux Mint Debian Edition) and have also switched from my old love bit torrent over to usenet just for security’s sake. I’ve been reading alot of posts on the net to figure everything out as people and links come and go as does software to do what you want it to do. Here’s the easy way of how I upload to usenet using my laptop.

A few things you’re going to need beforehand.

rar, cksfv, PyPar2 and JBinUp. (cksfv, rar and PyPar2 are available in the repos. and JBinUp is availble online.)

Now you’ll notice a few dependancies are going to be needed just by the names of those apps. PyPar2 is obviously written in python so you’re going to need that and JBinUp is written in java so you’re also going to want that installed. Yes there are other apps such as newsposter (cli) but I’ve been having issues with that and really the gui of JBinUp as well as the .nzb file creations really come in handy for me.

First your going to need to break your video down into smaller parts using rar. Music files are small enough you don’t need to split them apart but movies you do. For files 1.4gb in size or smaller your going to want to split them into 15mb sizes. Here’s the easy gui way of doing that.

Right click the movie file and choose compress.

After some using this, I realized that the rar settings are set to archive not store (read slower and not recommended)

There’s a better way, and I’ve made an earlier post about how to do that using a script so you don’t have to use the commandline (after setting it up the first time that is ). After using that guide, skip down to the next part starting in Green.

Once the Compress window opens click the option that says “Other Options” to expand them, then change the extention to .rar and LEAVE THE BLOODY PASSWORD FIELD BLANK!!! Then check the box that says “Split into volumes of” and set that field to 15.0 then click Create.

Once it’s run it’s path (which could take some time) you’ll be left with many files in your folder which should look something like this:

Skip to here.

Remember that the original file is NOT going to be uploaded but we’ll need it for another step later so leave it in your folder for now.

We’re going to want to create the .svf and .nfo files. NFO Files are just a .txt file that has had it’s extention changed. so feel free to use whatever text editor you feel comfortable with and create your .nfo file. I’m not going to go far into the .nfo creation as that’s really up to you what info you want to put in there, however the output from programs like MediaInfo will suit you quite well. Run MediaInfo on the original file and select view > text and you’ll get something that looks like this:

Copy the info from there and add it to your .nfo file. Your done with this step, so you can now safely remove the original file from your folder now.

Next we’re going to create the parity files. (Par2) so open your PyPar2 app and click on the create tab.

Right click on the window and add all the .rar files in your folder. The default settings will be fine for our needs, so once all your files are in PyPar2 just click on the GO button.

Choose the same folder as your .rar files to save the .par files and let it run it’s magic.

The par files are very important as they let you fix broken or missing .rar files. Make sure they are included in your folder.

To Create the .sfv file, your going to have to check into the commandline (sorry I haven’t found a gui for this part yet) so fire up your terminal emulator. (I like terminator)  Now let’s cd to your working directory which in my case is /home/daniel/NZB/example

then run the cksfv command like so.

The -b command strips out the directorys so that the .sfv file will work on anyone’s system without having to have it in the same directory structure. The > checksum.sfv will create the .sfv file instead of just printing the results to the terminal window. It should look like this:

and the output should look like this:

So now your files are rar’ed and par’ed, you’ve got a .nfo file and a .sfv file, your almost ready to post your files! Fire up JBinUp

In JBinUp go to File > Settings and setup your server and poster settings. I’ll wait. I can’t tell you how to enter in this info as each usenet provider has there own url’s and settings, as well as plenty of documentation on how to setup your clients so this shouldn’t be a major issue for you.

After you have your basic settings situated, click on the single (+) button to start setting the posting information. The interface is quite simple, just fill in the blanks. Set your post’s title (aka subject) and choose who’s uploading this post (if you have more then one setup) then click the add button to add the files you want to upload. You want to select every file in your folder, so a simple keyboard command of Ctrl+A will select everything for you and click the Open Button.

Once everything looks right, click Forward and select the groups you want to add this post to. The options here are too varied and numerous so you’ll have to figure out what groups you want yourself but check the alt.binaries.whatever group’s to figure out where you’re going to want to post to. Got your groups? Good! Click the “Add Job” button and it’s off and uploading!

Once your files have finished uploading it’s a good idea to create a .nzb file for them so you can share your posts easily on sites like NzbMatrix and the likes. I am not uploading this example I’ve been using so the option isn’t available for me but if you right click the file you posted in JBinUp after it’s done uploading you’ll get the option to create a nzb file. Again I highly recommend you do this

That’s it! Your files are now living on usenet and you have the .nzb file to prove it! Share it with your friends and let’s get some more new content on the net’s!