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│ The federation of releasing groups presents │
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│ The HighDef XViD Releasing Standards 2005 │
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│ Requirements: Notepad with terminal font or other ascii viewer │
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│ └───[ INTRO ]───┘ │
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│ Why HighDef XViD? Isn't DVD-R good enough? No. │
│ XViD is superior to MPEG-2 by a lot. At some bitrate (e.g. 4 mbit/s) │
│ MPEG-2 can let 720x576/720x480 look good. XViD can let 1280x720 look │
│ good at the very same video bitrate. │
│ Compatibility is a lot smaller problem by now thanks to XBMC and modern │
│ standalone players ... so why not let everyone enjoy true HDTV? │
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│ └───[ RELEASE RULES ]───┘ │
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│ Runtime: │
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│ 0 to 30 min: 1 CD ( 734,000,000 byte) │
│ 25 to 60 min: 1/3 DVD-5 (1,560,000,000 byte) │
│ 55 to 85 min: 1/2 DVD-5 (2,340,000,000 byte) │
│ 80 to 170 min: 1 DVD-5 (4,680,000,000 byte) │
│ 160 to * min: 1 DVD-9 (8,450,000,000 byte) │
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│ Releases must utilize 97 to 100% of the target file size. │
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│ Audio: │
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│ AC3 5.1 is to be used. │
│ Source can be from the HDTV airing and/or from a foreign DVD. │
│ Muxing a different audio language to an existing release's video is │
│ welcome if allowed by the video source group and mentioned in the nfo. │
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│ Video: │
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│ Framerate: │
│ Must be as close to original source framerate as possible. │
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│ Codec: │
│ Must be XviD. │
│ Must not be singlepass encoding technique. │
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│ Resolution: │
│ Must be 1280x720 progressive. │
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│ Credits: │
│ Full Credits must be included. │
│ Credits must not be encoded separately at a lower bitrate if they │
│ contain video footage, ie bloopers. │
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│ Packaging: │
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│ Must be .avi, not bin/cue, iso or img. │
│ Must be packed with .rar, compression is not allowed. │
│ Must be broken into 15MB (CD), 50MB (DVD-5) or 100MB (DVD-9) volumes. │
│ Must include recovery record. │
│ Must have .sfv. │
│ Must have .nfo including: │
│ group name │
│ title │
│ release date │
│ theatrical relase date (movies) │
│ original air date (TV episodes) │
│ file size │
│ number and size of volumes │
│ audio source, format and bitrate │
│ video bitrate │
│ runtime │
│ iMDB-link or similar │
│ All .nfos have to include the maximum information possible. Lack of │
│ info or smartass comments such as "good size" or "nice audio" will not │
│ be tolerated. │
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│ Samples: │
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│ A 15 to 30MB Sample must be included. │
│ Must be taken from the release - not encoded separately. │
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│ Propers: │
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│ Propers are only permitted in the case of a technical flaw with the │
│ original release (i.e. sync problems, bad choice of file size, ...). │
│ Propers must state the proper reason and include proof. │
│ Qualitative propers are not allowed. │
│ Propers based upon the compliance with new instances of THX │
│ guidelines are not allowed. │
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│ Directory Naming: │
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│ All releasenames must include: │
│ TV: Show name, season & episode number (S??E??), episode title, │
│ language, source (720p.HDTV), codec (XVID), groupname. │
│ Movies: Title, production year, language, source (720p.HDTV), │
│ codec (XVID), groupname. │
│ English language does not need to be tagged. │
│ No FESTIVAL/STV/LIMITED/READ.NFO in dirnames. │
│ Permited tags are: PROPER, REPACK, RERIP, INTERNAL, DC, EXTENDED, │
│ REMASTERED, UNRATED. │
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│ Acceptable characters in the directory name are: │
│ ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ │
│ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz │
│ 0123456789.-_ │
│ No spaces or double dots. │
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│ Examples: │
│ Funky.Show.S93E72.Groovy.Title.720p.HDTV.XVID-CoolGroup │
│ Great.Movie.2007.Chinese.UNRATED.720p.HDTV.XVID-BigGroup │
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│ └───[ NOTES TO THE RULES ]───┘ │
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│ Source related notes: │
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│ For now the only source to be used is 720p HDTV. │
│ THX will be updated when we will be blessed with HD-DVDs. │
│ Re-encoding HDWMV to XVID will not be tolerated. │
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│ Ripping related notes: │
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│ Group watermarks are not allowed. │
│ No intros, outros, betweenos, or any other form of defacement of the │
│ movie will be tolerated. │
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│ Filesystem related notes: │
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│ ISO9660 craps out above 2GB files, so in order to burn 1/2 DVD-5 or │
│ larger releases you will have to use UDF. │
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│ Thx to TDX2k4, we kinda stole their design :) │
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│ └────────[ GROUPS ]────────┘ │
│ THX2K5 signed by the following Groups: │
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└──[ v0.3 created by the Union of Themepark Zombies in September 2005 ]──┘
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