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<title>2011_X264.2.nfo</title>
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font-family: nfo;
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src: url(nfo.eot);
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.nfo {
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<pre class="nfo">UPDATE!
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MELiTE and METiS sign too!
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#########################################################################################
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High Definition x264 Standards
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Revision 4.0 :: 2011-01-29
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[ Intro ]
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A lot has happened in the years since the last revision and time came for some updates.
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Main changes include the need to provide proof for retail disc sources in view of the many
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suspicious releases that we have seen over the last year, Sizing has been made a bit more
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flexible, Subtitles rules have been reworked, foreign overlays have been addressed and finally
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suggested encoding settings have been updated to match the codec developments/changes since the
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previous standards.
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This rule set will target HDDVD and Blu-Ray sourced 720p and 1080p movie and TV-show rips.
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[ Previous Releases ]
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These rules do not apply to previous releases, and propering for those reasons will not be tolerated.
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[ General ]
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1.1) Release must be packed in RAR. SFV and NFO must be included.
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1.2) Rars must be in multiples of 50 MiB, no more than 99 files.
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1.3) Compressed rars are not allowed.
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1.4) Release must be muxed into a mkv container.
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1.5) NFO should contain information on Audio and Video Bitrate.
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1.6) BluRay and HDDVD sources dupe each other.
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1.7) Suggested directory format:
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Movie.Name.YEAR.<720p/1080p>.BluRay.x264.<PROPER/READ.NFO/REPACK>-GROUP
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TV.Show.SxxExx.<720p/1080p>.BluRay.x264.<PROPER/READ.NFO/REPACK>-GROUP
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1.8) No intros, outros, betweenos, or any other form of defacement of the film will be tolerated.
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1.9) Credits must not be removed but can be encoded at a lower bitrate provided they
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don't contain any scenes (bloopers, story, etc).
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1.10) A sample roughly 60 seconds in length is required.
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1.10.1) It must be cut from the final release and not encoded separately.
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1.10.2) It must be put within a directory named "Sample".
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[ Video ]
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2.1) If needed, appropriate de-interlacing and ivtc must be applied.
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2.2) Must use a minimum encode of 2 passes.
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2.3) Width of release must be mod 16. Height of release must be mod 8.
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2.4) Crop the black borders from the source. Crop to the widest frame possible.
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Info: For technical reasons you cannot crop 1 pixel, the minimum is 2 pixels, therefore propering for 1 pixel over/under does
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not make sense.
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2.4.1) Resizing is not allowed on 1080p encodes. Either crop to closest mod8/mod16 without overcropping, or crop().addborders()
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2.5) Use the same aspect ratio as the source, not what IMDB, cover or any other sources say.
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2.6) Custom Matrices are allowed.
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2.7) VfW (Video for Windows) is not allowed.
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2.8) x264 version used must be no more than 50 revisions from newest.
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2.9) Level 4.1 must be respected.
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2.10) --deblock must be enabled (default).
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--aq-mode must be enabled (default).
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--bframes 3 or higher is required (default).
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--ref 5 or higher is required unless the vertical resolution is greater than 864, then 4 must be used to respect L4.1.
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--me umh or higher is required.
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--subme 7 or higher is required (default).
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--trellis 1 or higher is required (default).
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2.11) 720p refers to a MAXIMUM resolution of 1280x720.
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2.11.1) For aspect ratio equal or above 1.78 horizontal resolution must be 1280.
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e.g. AR of 2.35:1 will be 1280x544.
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2.11.2) For aspect ratio lower than 1.78 vertical resolution must be 720.
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e.g. AR of 1.33:1 will be 960x720.
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2.12) 1080p refers to a MAXIMUM resolution of 1920x1080.
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2.12.1) For aspect ratio equal or above 1.78 horizontal resolution must be 1920.
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e.g. AR of 2.35:1 will be 1920x816.
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2.12.2) For aspect ratio lower than 1.78 vertical resolution must be 1080.
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e.g. AR of 1.33:1 will be 1440x1080.
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2.13) Video bitrate should be as follows:
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2.13.1) 720p - Minimum 4000 kbit, maximum 8000 kbit. Minimum bitrate for animation is 2300 kbit.
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2.13.2) 1080p - Minimum 8000 kbit, maximum 14000 kbit, though not more than source-2000kbit. Minimum bitrate for animation is 5000 kbit.
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[ Suggested encode settings for 720p ]
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3.1) First pass:
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x264.exe --pass 1 --profile high --stats movie.stats --bitrate 4000 --preset slow -o NUL movie.avs
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3.2) Second pass:
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x264.exe --pass 2 --profile high --stats movie.stats --bitrate 4000 --preset slow --ref 5 --subme 7 --analyse all --no-fast-pskip -o movie.mkv movie.avs
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[ Foreign overlays ]
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4.1) English spoken movies sources with non-english overlays in the actual movie footage are NOT allowed.
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This does not count for start/end credits but to relevant movie parts. e.g. on screen locations text,
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hardcoded non-english subtitles (hardsubs) and similar occurrences. example: http://i52.tinypic.com/2mnof94.jpg
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[ Audio ]
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5.1) Audio must be AC3, DTS or FLAC, preferably from source.
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DTS core must be extracted from a DTS HR/HD MA track.
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AC3 640 kbit, DTS 768 kbit and DTS 1536 kbit must be encoded from a higher bitrate source.
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Encoded DTS track must be decodeable by older hardware decoders.
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FLAC audio must be created from LPCM, DTS HD MA or TRUEHD sources.
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5.2) Audio bitrate must never be below 640 kbit, unless source only has lower bitrate audio track.
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5.3) All audio shall be 5.1 with correct channels, except in the case of stereo/mono only.
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5.4) Release must only contain one audio track muxed into the mkv container, unless original language isn't english.
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5.4.1) Original language audio track or English dubbed track must be used.
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5.4.1.1) English dubbed movie without original audio track must be tagged DUBBED.
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5.4.1.2) DUBBED release only allowed if no release with secondary English dubbed audio track exists.
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5.4.2) If original language is not English:
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5.4.2.1) English Subtitles must be included.
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5.4.2.2) English dub is allowed as a secondary audio track.
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[ Subtitles ]
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6.1) English subs in a text-based format (.srt) must be muxed into the mkv container for non-english movies or non-english scenes.
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They should be carefully ocr'd and must be in sync. It is encouraged to include english subs for english spoken movies too.
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6.2) Subs MUST be from a retail source. Fan/Custom/Web subs are not allowed.
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6.3) Must use a separate substream for FORCED subtitles when available for english movies with foreign spoken parts (e.g. the alien
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the "alien spoken" parts in District 9). http://i52.tinypic.com/2zi3tkh.jpg
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When making use of forced subs, it is necessary to enable this stream by default, placing it above any other stream,
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so that there is no user interaction required when playing the movie. For this, the muxer has to be set to show the stream
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by default.
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6.4) Subtitles must not be burned into the video stream.
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6.5) Multi-language subtitles cannot be used as a basis for a dupe.
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6.6) "Subs" directories are allowed.
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They are intended only for external (not muxed) use and must be in vobsub format (idx/sub).
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Vobsubs can be made using BDSup2Sub (http://tinyurl.com/49txsaw). Please use the subs resizing option in BDSup2Sub
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according to your release (1280x720 resizing for 720p, 1920x1080 for 1080p).
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6.6.1) External subs CANNOT replace muxed text-based srt subs for non-english movies/scenes and can only act as a supplement.
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6.6.2) Vobsubs are NOT allowed to be muxed into the mkv container.
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6.6.3) Vobsubs need to be in a single idx/sub set format. Multi-language streams can be made into one set using VobsubMuxer
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(http://tinyurl.com/4aqdsal) or similar.
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6.6.4) Subs in /Subs dir need to be rar packed using best compression and should be identical in tagging to mkv name. Subpack rar name
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must not dupe main release rar names.
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[ Total Size ]
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7.1) Final mkv file size in MiB (1048576 bytes) must be:
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Multiples of 1120
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DVD5/x (896, 1493, 2240, etc.)
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Also allowed 2713, 8140 for all releases and 4070 for 1080p tv.
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7.2) A max undersize of 40 MiB can be tolerated.
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7.3) Propering a release that could have been a larger size is not allowed, unless below minimum bitrate.
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[ Proof ]
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8.1) ALL releases MUST now include source proof in the following way: Snapshot (not scan) of the actual physical disc (printed side) in
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jpg/png format with a group tag (e.g http://i53.tinypic.com/2jg9yqe.jpg). Disc snapshot must be in good quality with disc details clear
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and readable. Small portions containing store stickers/barcodes may be blurred or blackened.
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It's encouraged to also add a web hoster link to nfo to avoid trading skips.
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8.1.2) Cover scans and m2ts samples may be added but DO NOT count as sufficient proof.
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8.1.3) Releases that fail to pre with such proof are to be considered a nuke and can be propered. Proofixes later than 2 hours from pre
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(if a proper has not been pred during that time) will not be accepted.
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8.2) IMPORTANT NOTE:
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Some mobile phone cameras (such as iPhone) add exif metadata to the pictures (gps location for example). It is ESSENTIAL to make
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sure exif metadata is removed from your snapshot. This can be done in windows7 (http://i53.tinypic.com/2qltvu9.png), by editing
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and re-saving the picture with Microsoft Paint or using freeware tools available on an "exif remover" web search.
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e.g http://tinyurl.com/purejpg.
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[ Signed By (in alphabetic order) ]
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aAF, aBD, ALLiANCE, AMIABLE, AVCHD, AVCDVD, BESTHD, BLOW, CBGB, CiNEFiLE, CLUE, CROSSBOW, CULTHD, Felony, FilmHD, HD4U, HDEX, HUBRIS, iBEX,
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iNFAMOUS, iNGOT, KaKa, LEVERAGE, NODLABS, NOHD, PELLUCiD, PFa, QCF, REFiNED, REWARD, SECTOR7, SEMTEX, SEVENTWENTY, SHORTBREHD, SiNNERS,
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TENEIGHTY, THUGLiNE, TREBLE, TWiZTED, WASABi, XPRESS
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[ Refused to Sign (in alphabetic order) ]
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AVS720, FLHD, Japhson, LCHD, OEM1080
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[ These rules apply from 2011-02-07 00:00:00 GMT (1230768000 unixtime) ]
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[ Change Log ]
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+ = added
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* = changed
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4.0:
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+ 4.1: Foreign overlays are not allowed.
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+ 6.2: Subs must be from a retail source. fan subs are not allowed.
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+ 6.3: Forced subtitles for non-english scene must be included in seperate stream.
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+ 8.1: Source Proof is enforced.
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* 3.1: First Pass suggested settings updated.
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* 3.2: Second Pass suggested settings updated.
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* 6.6: Subs directories for Vobsubs are allowed.
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* 7.1: Multiples of 1120 instead of 2240.
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</pre>
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