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║ POLiSH High-Def x264 Standards ║
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╚═►Revision 1.0 :: 2008-12-20
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║[ Intro ]║
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│ As you can see, POLiSH groups started to release High-Def material aswell, │
│ so we decided to release this ruleset for all of us to obey from now on. │
│ Enjoy and good luck! │
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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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║[ Generals]║
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│1.1) Release must be packed in RAR (no compression). SFV and NFO must be included. │
│1.2) Rars should be in multiples of 50 MiB, no more than 99 files. │
│1.3) Release must be muxed into mkv container. │
│1.4) NFO should contain information on Audio and Video Bitrate. │
│1.5) BluRay and HDDVD Sources dupe each other. │
│1.6) Suggested directory format: │
│ Movie.Name.YEAR.PL.<720p/1080p>.BluRay.x264.<PROPER/READ.NFO/REPACK>-GROUP │
│ TV.Show.SxxExx.PL.<720p/1080p>.BluRay.x264.<PROPER/READ.NFO/REPACK>-GROUP │
│1.7) No intros, outros, betweenos, or any other form of defacement of the film will be tolerated.│
│1.8) Credits must not be removed but can be encoded at a lower bitrate provided they │
│ don't contain any scenes (bloopers, story, etc). │
│1.9) A sample roughly 60 seconds in length is required. │
│1.9.1) It must be cut from the final release and not encoded separately. │
│1.9.2) It must be put within a directory named "Sample". │
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║[ Audio ]║
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│2.1) Audio must be AC3, DTS or FLAC, preferably from source. │
│ DTS core must be extracted from a DTS HR/HD MA track. │
│ AC3 640 kbit, DTS 768 kbit and DTS 1536 kbit must be encoded from a higher bitrate source. │
│ Encoded DTS track must be decodeable by older hardware decoders. │
│ FLAC audio must be created from LPCM, DTS HD MA or TRUEHD sources. │
│2.1.1) If source material is capped from HDTV stream, using of MPA audio is allowed. │
│2.2) Audio bitrate must never be below 640 kbit, unless source only has lower bitrate audio track. │
│2.3) All audio shall be 5.1 with correct channels, except in the case of stereo/mono only. │
│2.4) Release must only contain one audio track muxed into the mkv container │
│2.4.1) Audio track must be either POLiSH Voice Over or POLiSH DUBBiNG │
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║[ Video ]║
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│3.1) If needed, appropriate de-interlacing and ivtc must be applied. │
│3.2) Must use a minimum encode of 2 passes. │
│3.3) Height of release must be mod 8. Width of release must be mod 16. │
│3.3.1) Resizing is not allowed on 1080p encodes. Either crop to closest mod8/mod16 without overcropping, or crop().addborders() │
│3.4) Crop the black borders from the source. Crop to the widest frame possible. │
│3.5) Use the same aspect ratio as the source, not what IMDB or cover says. │
│3.6) Custom Matrices are allowed. │
│3.7) VfW (Video for Windows) is not allowed. │
│3.8) x264 version used must be at least 999 and no more than 50 revisions from newest. │
│3.9) --deblock must be enabled. │
│ --aq-mode must be enabled. │
│ --bframes 3 or higher is required. │
│ --subme 7 or higher is required. │
│ --ref 5 or higher is required. 4 is valid for vertical resolution above 864 (1080p) to respect L4.1 High Profile. │
│ --me umh or higher is required. │
│ --trellis 1 or higher is required. │
│3.10) 720p refers to a MAXIMUM resolution of 1280x720. │
│3.10.1) For aspect ratio equal or above 1.78 horizontal resolution must be 1280. │
│ e.g. AR of 2.35:1 will be 1280x544. │
│3.10.2) For aspect ratio lower than 1.78 vertical resolution must be 720. │
│ e.g. AR of 1.33:1 will be 960x720. │
│3.11) 1080p refers to a MAXIMUM resolution of 1920x1080. │
│3.11.1) For aspect ratio equal or above 1.78 horizontal resolution must be 1920. │
│ e.g. AR of 2.35:1 will be 1920x816. │
│3.11.2) For aspect ratio lower than 1.78 vertical resolution must be 1080. │
│ e.g. AR of 1.33:1 will be 1440x1080. │
│3.12) Video bitrate should be as follows: │
│3.12.1) 720p - Minimum 4000 kbit, maximum 8000 kbit. Minimum bitrate for animation is 2300 kbit. │
│3.12.2) 1080p - Minimum 8000 kbit, maximum 14000 kbit, though not more than source-2000kbit. Minimum bitrate for animation is 5000 kbit.│
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║[ Subtitles ]║
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│4.1) Subtitles must be in a text-based format and muxed into the mkv container.│
│4.2) Subtitles must not be burned into the video stream. │
│4.3) Multi-language subtitles cannot be used as a basis for a dupe. │
│4.4) "Subs" directories are forbidden. │
│4.5) Subtitles are not obligatory │
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║[ TotalSize ] ║
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│5.1) Final mkv file size in MiB (1048576 bytes) must be: │
│ Multiples of 2240 │
│ DVD5/x (1493, 1120, etc.) │
│ 8140, 2713 │
│ In addition, 3360 and 4070 are allowed for 1080p tv. │
│5.2) A max undersize of 40 MiB can be tolerated. │
│5.3) Propering a release that could have been a larger size is not allowed, unless below minimum bitrate│
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║[ Suggested encode settings ]║
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│6.1) First pass: │
│ x264.exe --pass 1 --level 4.1 --stats .stats --bitrate 4000 --threads auto --bframes 3 --me dia --ref 1 --subme 1 --no-dct-decimate --partitions none --progress --no-psnr --no-ssim --output NUL movie.avs │
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│6.2) Second pass: │
│ x264.exe --pass 2 --level 4.1 --stats .stats --bitrate 4000 --threads auto --bframes 3 --b-pyramid --weightb --me umh --ref 5 --mixed-refs --subme 7 --trellis 1 --analyse all --8x8dct --no-fast-pskip --progress --no-psnr --no-ssim --output movie.mkv movie.avs│
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[ Signed By (in alphabetic order) ]
55L, A4O, BEER, BiL, CL4SS, ProPL, R4F, SiBV
[ These rules apply to all POLiSH x264 releases from 2008-12-20 ]