The 2003 TV Releasing Standards v1.5   by Independent (IND)

The.2003.TV.Releasing.Standards ▀▀█▀▀ █ █ ▀▀▀▀█ █▀▀▀█ █▀▀▀█ ▀▀▀▀█ █ █ █ R E L E A S E R U L E S █▀▀▀▀ █ █ █ █ ▀▀▀▀█ █ █ █▄▄▄▄ █▄▄▄█ █▄▄▄█ ▄▄▄▄█ █ v1.5 (11/16/02) ▄ ▀▄ ▄▀ ▀█ ▄▀ ▀█▄ ▄▀ █▄ ▄█▀ █▄ ▄█▀ ██ ▄██ ▀█▄ ▄██▀ ▀█▄ ▄██▀ ▀██▄ ▄███▀ ████▄▄▄▄███▀ ▄▄▄▄████████████▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄███████████▄ ▄▄▄▄██████████████████████████████████████████▄ ▄█████████████████████████████████████████████████████████▄▄▄▄▄▄▄ █████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████▄▄ █████▀ ▀▀▀▀▀▀██████████████████████████████████████████████████████████ █████ ▀▀▀▀▀▀██████████████████████████████████████████ ████▀ ▀████████████████████████████████ ████ ███████████████████████████████ ████ ██████████████████████████████ ████ ██████████████████████████████ ████ ██████████████████████████████ ████ ██████████████████████████████ ████ ██████████████████████████████ ████ ██████████████████████████████ ████ ██████████████████████████████ ████ ██████████████████████████████ ████ ██████████████████████████████ ████ ██████████████████████████████ ████ ██████████████████████████████ ████ ██████████████████████████████ ████▄ ██████████████████████████████ █████▄ ██████████████████████████████ ▀████████▄▄▄▄▄▄ ██████████████████████████████ ▀▀▀▀▀████████████████▄▄▄▄▄▄ █████████████████████████████▀ █████████████████████████████▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄██████████████████████████▀▀ ▀███████████████████████████████████████████████████████████▀ █████▀ ▀▀▀▀███▀▀████████████████████████████████▀▀█████▄ ▄████▀ ███ ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀█████████████▀▀▀▀ ▀████▄ ▄███▀ ██ ▀█████ ▀███▄ ███▀ ███ ▀████ ▀███ ▄██▀ ▀▀▀ ████ ▀██ ▄██▀ ▀███▄ ▀▀ ▀▀ ████ │ ███ ▐│ │ ███ ▐│ │▌ Nuking has always been an issue in the TV ███ ▐│ │▌ scene. So here is the ruleset that tries ▀██ ▐│ │▌ to cover up the mess a little. ▀▀ ▐│ │▌ ▐│ │▌ ▐│ │▌ DIGITAL CAP: ▐│ │▌ ──────────── ▐│ │▌ This includes any real digital source that didn't pass through any ▐│ │▌ analog interface between the source (Sat/Antenna/Cable) and the file ▐│ │▌ on your computer. ▐│ │▌ ▐│ │▌ This includes ATSC off-air antenna signals carrying MPEG2 Transport ▐│ │▌ Streams (using cards such as MyHD/Hipix/WinTV-HD), DirecTiVo MPEG2 ▐│ │▌ Streams (not standard TiVo!) and DVB Stream Capture cards. ▐│ │▌ ▐│ │▌ ▐│ │▌ *HDTV* (High Definition Televison): Digital recording from a source ▐│ │▌ stream at either 1080i or 720p at a bitrate from 19,39mbps or ▐│ │▌ higher. ▐│ │▌ ▐│ │▌ ▐│ │▌ *PDTV* (Pure Digital Television): Other resolution digital recor- ▐│ │▌ dings from source streams at a bitrate of 10+mbps or higher. ▐│ │▌ - This includes digital recordings from digital C-Band and ▐│ │▌ DVB. ▐│ │▌ ▐│ │▌ ▐│ │▌ *SDTV* (Standard Digital Television): Digital recording or capture ▐│ │▌ from a source stream at any resolution with bitrate under ▐│ │▌ 10mbps. ▐│ │▌ - This includes DirecTiVo but also captures from digisat or ▐│ │▌ digicable with analog capture cards. ▐│ │▌ ▐│ │▌ ▐│ │▌ note: For SVCD, analog cable and antenna caps are not allowed, so ▐│ │▌ SDTV is the lowest allowed source and will have no label. See ▐│ │▌ NAMING below. ▐│ │▌ ▐│ │▌ ▐│ │▌ note: HDTV and PDTV rips are digital recordings, although PDTV was ▐│ │▌ labeled wrongly in the past by some groups (TiVo is NOT PDTV). ▐│ │▌ ▐│ │▌ ▐│ │▌ ANALOG CAP: ▐│ │▌ ─────────── ▐│ │▌ This includes any source that went through at least one Digital -> ▐│ │▌ Analog -> Digital process. ▐│ │▌ ▐│ │▌ This includes Standard TiVo, any MPEG2 capture card, any DV source ▐│ │▌ (unless you're releasing your home videos that were actually shot on ▐│ │▌ a DV camera) or any other standard capture card. ▐│ │▌ ▐│ │▌ ▐│ │▌ PDVTV and HDTV is NEVER captured in analogue, on the other hand a ▐│ │▌ SDTV cap can be both. ▐│ │▌ ▐│ │▌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────▐│ │▌ ▐│ │▌ COMMENTS: ▐│ │▌ ───────── ▐│ │▌ For SVCD/DivX, any video, regardless of Analog or Digital should be ▐│ │▌ converted to 23.976fps (NTSC) or 25fps (PAL) "Progressive Film" for ▐│ │▌ correct encoding. ▐│ │▌ A LOT of group don't bother with this step and thus their encoding ▐│ │▌ quality suffers, regardless of their source quality. ▐│ │▌ ▐│ │▌ Even if your source video comes as Progressive 59.976fps (as it can ▐│ │▌ with ATSC sources), you must still convert to the proper frame rate ▐│ │▌ or your video will be jerky or waste bits. ▐│ │▌ ▐│ │▌ For any NTSC encode (other than live shows like the "Tonight Show") ▐│ │▌ the video must be converted to 23.976fps through the use of IVTC or ▐│ │▌ duplicate frame elimination (for ATSC 59.976fps progressive sources) ▐│ │▌ prior to SVCD encoding. And once encoded, you must enable the 3:2 ▐│ │▌ pulldown flag to enable playback at 29.976fps (even though the sour- ▐│ │▌ ce still remains at 23.976fps). ▐│ │▌ ▐│ │▌ Analog Cable or Analog Antenna rips on SVCD are NOT allowed. ▐│ │▌ ▐│ │▌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────▐│ │▌ ▐│ │▌ DUPE RULES: ▐│ │▌ ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀ ▐│ │▌ ▐│ │▌ - SVCD Releases: ▐│ │▌ . HDTV: ▐│ │▌ - DUPE if there was a PDTV or a HDTV release. ▐│ │▌ - NO DUPE if there was only a SDTV or a VCD version. ▐│ │▌ ▐│ │▌ . PDTV: ▐│ │▌ - DUPE if there was a PDTV or a HDTV release. ▐│ │▌ - NO DUPE if there was only a SDTV or a VCD version. ▐│ │▌ ▐│ │▌ . SDTV: ▐│ │▌ - Obvious. DUPE if there was previous release without ▐│ │▌ technical issues. ▐│ │▌ - NO DUPE if there was only a VCD version. ▐│ │▌ ▐│ │▌ . Widescreen does NOT dupe Fullscreen and vice versa. ▐│ │▌ ▐│ │▌ ▐│ │▌ - VCD Releases: ▐│ │▌ . No matter what source, the first release wins. Every ▐│ │▌ other VCD release is a dupe. ▐│ │▌ ▐│ │▌ - DivX/Xvid Releases: ▐│ │▌ . HDTV: ▐│ │▌ - DUPE if there was a PDTV or a HDTV release. ▐│ │▌ - NO DUPE if there was only a SDTV or an analog cap. ▐│ │▌ ▐│ │▌ . PDTV: ▐│ │▌ - DUPE if there was a PDTV or a HDTV release. ▐│ │▌ - NO DUPE if there was only a SDTV or an analog cap. ▐│ │▌ ▐│ │▌ . SDTV: ▐│ │▌ - DUPE if there was already a analog cap. ▐│ │▌ technical issues. ▐│ │▌ ▐│ │▌ . Analog cap: ▐│ │▌ - Obvious. DUPE if there was previous release without ▐│ │▌ technical issues. ▐│ │▌ ▐│ │▌ . Widescreen does NOT dupe Fullscreen and vice versa. ▐│ │▌ ▐│ │▌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────▐│ │▌ ▐│ │▌ NUKE RULES: ▐│ │▌ ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀ ▐│ │▌ ▐│ │▌ - A release is considered as a NUKE, if: ▐│ │▌ . It's a DUPE. ▐│ │▌ . It has technical issues. ▐│ │▌ . Wrong or no source/cap information is specified in the .nfo. ▐│ │▌ ▐│ │▌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────▐│ │▌ ▐│ │▌ NAMING RULES: ▐│ │▌ ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀ ▐│ │▌ ▐│ │▌ The following tags are used for SVCD releases: ▐│ │▌ ▐│ │▌ - "HDTV" for HDTV caps. ▐│ │▌ - "PDTV" for PDTV caps. ▐│ │▌ - "SDTV" or nothing for SDTV caps. ▐│ │▌ ▐│ │▌ . VCD releases don't need to be tagged. ▐│ │▌ . Widescreen releases are tagged with "WS", otherwise they are ▐│ │▌ supposed to be fullscreen. ▐│ │▌ ▐│ │▌ ▐│ │▌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────▐│ │▌ ▐│ │▌ PROPER RULES: ▐│ │▌ ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀ ▐│ │▌ ▐│ │▌ - A PROPER is only valid when the previous release has technical ▐│ │▌ issues. A HDTV after a PDTV rip is no reason to dupe and there- ▐│ │▌ fore no reason for a PROPER if the previous release was ▐│ │▌ ok. ▐│ │▌ ▐│ │▌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────▐│ │▌ ▐│ │▌ GROUPS AND MEMBERS: ▐│ │▌ ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀ ▐│ │▌ ▐│ │▌ This ruleset was written and organized by: ▐│ │▌ ▐│ │▌ ■ FoV ■ SD-6 ■ PHRENiC ■ FTV ■ FFN ■ SFM ■ STN ■ ▐│ │▌ ▐│ │▌ ▐│ │▌ Signed and approved by: ▐│ │▌ ▐│ │▌ ▐│ │▌ ▐│ │▀▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▀│ └────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘