The SVCD Releasing Standards 2002   by Independent (IND)

┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ │ │ The SVCD Releasing Standards 2002 │ │ │ ┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ │ │ └───[ RELEASE RULES ]───┘ │ │ │ │ PROPERS: │ │ │ │ - No previous releases may be propered based on audio or video bitrate. │ │ - Propers will be allowed in the case of technical problems, bad aspect │ │ ratio, sync problems, skipping/freezing, interlaced, bad ivtc, etc │ │ │ │ VIDEO: │ │ │ │ - Must be at least 1750kbit average, with a maximum of 2450kbit. │ │ - TMPGENC: 2 pass minimum │ │ - CCE: 4 pass minimum │ │ - Menus allowed. (see notes) │ │ - Subtitles allowed (and encouraged for foreign releases) │ │ │ │ AUDIO: │ │ │ │ - Minimum 224kbit @ 44.1khz (regardless of source) │ │ - Secondary tracks shall be 224 or LESS │ │ │ │ PACKAGING: │ │ │ │ - All releases must be BIN/CUE. (remove path from cue files) │ │ - Must be packed with RAR, compression is NOT ALLOWED │ │ and broken into 15 or 20 MB volumes │ │ - Recovery record recommended. │ │ - Must have SFV │ │ - Must have NFO │ │ - NFO MUST INCLUDE: │ │ Group name │ │ Title │ │ Actual SVCD release date │ │ DVD release date │ │ US theater release date │ │ Audio bitrate │ │ Video minimum/average/maximum bitrate │ │ Movie runtime/length │ │ IMDB/adultdvdempire link │ │ Number of rars per cd (eg. 44x15MB) │ │ │ │ SAMPLES: │ │ │ │ - REQUIRED │ │ - Minimum 30 seconds, maximum 1 full minute in length and in separate │ │ folder marked 'SAMPLE'. │ │ - MUST be taken from the movie - NOT encoded separately. │ │ │ │ DIRECTORY NAMING: │ │ │ │ - Directory names shall NOT exceed 64 characters. │ │ - All releases are to include production year. │ │ - DO NOT indicate Ripping method (CBR/VBR/CCE/TMPGENC and so on), │ │ WS (widescreen), DVD/SVCD release DATE, GENRE or anything else │ │ in the directory name (ONLY within the NFO). │ │ - Acceptable characters in naming a directory include (NO spaces or │ │ double dots - single dots or underscores ONLY): │ │ │ │ ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ │ │ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz │ │ 0123456789 . -_ │ │ │ │ - All Release directories, regardless of year, shall be named │ │ according to Movie.Name.Year.Source.Codec-Group │ │ (i.e. Movie.Name.Year.DVDRip.SVCD-Group) │ │ │ │ - Releases that are more than 1 CD will follow these specs: │ │ - MUST be named CD1, CD2, CD3 and so on. ('disc1', etc will NOT │ │ be allowed). │ │ - There MUST be a SFV included for each CD. │ │ │ └───────┬┬──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┬┬───────┘ │ │ │ └───[ NOTES TO THE RULES ]───┘ │ │ │ │ Source related notes: │ │ - Source shall be DVD Only, no exceptions! │ │ - DVD Screeners shall be clearly marked in the directory name and the │ │ nfo shall contain presence of studio watermarking, or lack thereof. │ │ │ │ Ripping related notes: │ │ - Movies should be ripped in their most widescreen format available. │ │ - Group Watermarks WILL NOT BE ALLOWED IN ANY CASE. │ │ - NO intros, outros, betweenos, or any other form of defacement of the │ │ movie including possible menus will be tolerated. │ │ │ └───────┬┬──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┬┬───────┘ │ │ │ └───[ GROUPS & MEMBERS ]───┘ │ │ │ │ SVCD 2002 revision was organized by: │ │ - vimVam - ne14a69 - │ │ │ │ Respects to the original SVCD council organizers: │ │ │ │ iV - V4F - 4HM - XPD - DvCS - PTi - TBH - TWiLiGHT │ │ │ │ SVCD 2002 has been approved by the following groups: │ │ │ │ EPiC - V4F - aNBc - DEiTY - TheWretched - iFO - WiDE │ │ │ │ DvCS - PMM - TBH - SChiZO - ESVCD - PTi │ │ │ │ Also signed by: │ │ │ │ DMR - VCDWS - tNB - SportsVCD - iNFiNiTY - NAPALM - TmN │ │ │ └───────┬┬──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┬┬───────┘ │ Special thanks to the TDX 2002 rules for their layout and guidelines. │ └───────┬┬──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┬┬───────┘