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│ │
│ The federation of releasing groups presents │
│ │
│ The DivX Releasing Standards 2001 │
│ │
└────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ Requirements: Notepad with terminal font or other ascii viewer │
├──────────────────────────┬───────────────┬─────────────────────────────────┤
│ └───[ INTRO ]───┘ │
│ │
│ I am proud to inroduce the newest revision to the TDX rules. Many long │
│ hours have been spent making them the best that they could be. I thank │
│ all of the groups involved. These rules could not have been made without │
│ your ripping experience. A special thanks goes to MaTaN for all his hard │
│ work in bringing all the groups together, and to Puzz13 for filling in as │
│ a moderator when needed, along with the hosting space on iSONEWS. I could │
│ not have done my job without such wonderfull support. So without further │
│ ado, I present to you, the DivX ripper/enthusiast, the TDX 2001 Releasing │
│ Standards │
│ │
│ │
│ Lava - Moderator │
│ │
└───────┬┬──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┬┬───────┘
┌───────┴┴──────────────┬───────────────────────┬───────────────────┴┴───────┐
│ └───[ RELEASE RULES ]───┘ │
│ │
│ │
│ NOT ALLOWED: │
│ - VCD (includes VCD screeners, telesyncs, cams, workprints) -> DivX │
│ will NOT be allowed (see Notes section) │
│ - VHS -> DivX will NOT be allowed (Anime ONLY - NO EXCEPTIONS) │
│ │
│ │
│ Movie Length: │
│ - Movies with runtimes LESS than or EQUAL to 110 minutes must be 1 CD │
│ under 700 MB. │
│ - Movies with runtimes OVER 110 minutes can be 2 CDs (80mins allowed) │
│ - Ripper discretion if a movie 111+ minutes can be done on 1 CD. │
│ │
│ │
│ Bitrates: │
│ VIDEO (MM4): │
│ - Low-Motion video shall be NO LESS than 500 Kbs │
│ - Fast-Motion video shall be NO LESS than 1000 Kbs │
│ - SBC is excluded from minimum bitrate settings │
│ Future techniques are subject to an exclusion hearing for bitrate │
│ controls │
│ - NOTE: ANIME can be greater than 1000 Kbs low motion if needed. │
│ │
│ VIDEO (NON-MM4): │
│ - Low-Motion video shall be NO LESS than 750 Kbs │
│ - Fast-Motion video shall be NO LESS than 1000 Kbs │
│ - NOTE: ANIME can be greater than 1000 Kbs low motion if needed. │
│ │
│ AUDIO: │
│ - MUST be MP3 and MUST be STEREO │
│ - Audio shall be a minimum of: │
│ 1 CD release MUST be 128kbs, 44.1kHz or 48kHz │
│ 2 CD release MUST be 128kbs or 160kbs, 44.1kHz or 48kHz │
│ - VBR techniques; │
│ minimum framesize must be no less than 96kbs, average of 128kbs │
│ - WMA is NOT allowed - other codecs are allowed as long as they are │
│ readable on all operating systems. │
│ │
│ │
│ Keyframe: │
│ - MUST be <=2 seconds for constant keyframe techniques │
│ - MUST be <=20 second for vki techniques │
│ │
│ │
│ Resolution: │
│ - Width: 512 - 640 pixels and MUST be a multiple of 16 │
│ - Height: Must be a multiple of 16 │
│ - Cropping is allowed │
│ │
│ │
│ Subs, Interactive Menus, Trailers: │
│ - OPTIONAL (if and ONLY if all other requirements have been met) │
│ - For more detailed Subtitles information, see notes. │
│ │
│ │
│ Packaging: │
│ - All releases must be AVI, not BIN/CUE. (see Notes Section) │
│ - Must be packed with RAR. NO compression is needed (proven worthless) │
│ and broken into 15 or 20 MB volumes │
│ - Must have SFV │
│ - Must have NFO │
│ - NFO MUST INCLUDE: │
│ Group name │
│ Title │
│ Actual DivX release date │
│ DVD release date │
│ US theater release date │
│ Video size │
│ Framesize/aspect ratio │
│ Audio bitrate │
│ Video bitrate │
│ Movie runtime/length │
│ IMDB/adultdvdempire link │
│ Number of rars per cd (eg. 44x15MB) │
│ Ripping Method │
│ │
│ │
│ Credits: │
│ - Movie credits are allowed but MUST be cut in order to fit within 1 CD │
│ (700 MB) if the movie length would exceed 110 minutes. │
│ - NOT required in the AVI itself │
│ - NOT required in the NFO - it is 'recommended' to list the main few │
│ characters as IMDB lists them │
│ │
│ │
│ Samples: │
│ - REQUIRED │
│ - 1 full minute in length (approximately 10 MB) and in separate folder │
│ marked 'SAMPLE' │
│ - MUST be taken from the movie - NOT encoded separately │
│ │
│ │
│ Directory Naming: │
│ - Directory names shall NOT exceed 64 characters │
│ - Classic releases are to include production year, omitting the │
│ "classic" tag. Pre's released no later than 31 days after the DVD │
│ release are NOT subject to the inclusion of production year. │
│ - DO NOT indicate Ripping method (MM4/VM2/VBR/SBC and so on), │
│ WS (widescreen), DVD/DivX 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 . -_ │
│ │
│ With "classic" releases: │
│ - Movie.Title.Year.DVDrip.DivX-GROUP │
│ - Movie.Title.Year.ANIME.DivX-GROUP │
│ - Movie.Title.Year.XXX.DivX-GROUP │
│ (usage of cGROUP is optional. 'Year' = production year, eg. 19**) │
│ │
│ With "non-classic" releases: │
│ - Movie.Title.DVDrip.DivX-GROUP │
│ - Movie.Title.ANIME.DivX-GROUP │
│ - Movie.Title.XXX.DivX-GROUP (assuming ALL XXX releases are DVDrips, │
│ we do not need to say so in the directory name) │
│ │
│ - 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 │
│ - rars MUST be broken into 2 or more CD volumes. (78 rars of a 2 │
│ disc title will NOT be tolerated) │
│ │
│ │
└───────┬┬──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┬┬───────┘
┌───────┴┴────────────┬────────────────────────────┬────────────────┴┴───────┐
│ └───[ NOTES TO THE RULES ]───┘ │
│ │
│ │
│ Source related notes: │
│ - VCD -> DivX is NOT ALLOWED: │
│ - lose ability to be played in DVD player │
│ - waaaay too many releases │
│ - no quality upgrade, just smaller packaging │
│ - flood of crap groups (no skill involved, just a race to leech, │
│ convert and re-release) │
│ - PRVHS = Pre Release VHS which is also equivalent to Original Screener │
│ tape but this naming system will avoid confusion for nukers when it │
│ comes to nuking VCD -> DivX because 'screener' is typically │
│ associated with VCD. │
│ │
│ Ripping related notes: │
│ - Duping on the basis of new techniques is NOT allowed. │
│ - Maximums VIDEO bitrates are covered by length rules. │
│ - Movies should be ripped in their most widescreen format available. │
│ - Multi-language AUDIO tracks are allowed │
│ - Multiple languages should be interleaved into the AVI, with │
│ a graphedit filter for each appropriate audio stream │
│ - Movies that would ordinarily fit on one CD should not be made │
│ into 2 CD releases on the basis of additional audio tracks │
│ - Multi-language audio CANNOT be used as a basis for a dupe. │
│ - Multi-Language SUBTITLES are allowed │
│ - Subtitles should be in the form of text files as an add-on, │
│ in any form, however MicroDVD format is prefered │
│ - Multi-language subtitles CANNOT be used as a basis for a dupe. │
│ - AVI and not BIN/CUE: │
│ - Some people burn to archive and play on a computer at a later │
│ time, BUT since there is no outside purpose other than playing on │
│ the computer, there is NO need to be packaged as BIN/CUE │
│ - Watermarks WILL NOT BE ALLOWED IN ANY CASE │
│ │
│ Audio related notes: │
│ - AC3 audio along with Oog Vorbis is permissible │
│ - When using CBR techniques, audio must be greater than 128kbs │
│ - WMA audio is NOT allowed: │
│ - Tremendous amount of synching problems │
│ - Not compatible with all sound cards │
│ │
└───────┬┬──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┬┬───────┘
┌───────┴┴────────────┬──────────────────────────┬──────────────────┴┴───────┐
│ └───[ GROUPS & MEMBERS ]───┘ │
│ │
│ TDX 2001 revision was organized by: │
│ - Lava - MaTaN - Puzz13 - │
│ │
│ Respects to the original TDX, Team DivX, organizers: │
│ - krazy8 - RipKord - Wuman - │
│ │
│ TDX 2001 is comprised of the following DivX groups: │
│ - DDX - DiAMOND - DiVEStX - EliteMedia - EPiSODE - │
│ - DOMiNiON - LiGHTNiNG - PoLIsO - SMB - TheFrail │
│ - TVfans - UPA - VCDVaULT - ViRA - │
│ │
│ Also signed by: │
│ - HeLLRiSE - HOSTiLE - SChiZO - Requiem - │
│ │
└───────┬┬──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┬┬───────┘
┌───────┴┴─────────────────┬─────────────────┬──────────────────────┴┴───────┐
│ └───[ CONTACT ]───┘ │
│ │
│ EMAIL: tdx@isonews.com │
│ WWW : www.isonews.com │
│ IRC : #isonews (EFnet) │
│ │
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