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│ The SVCD Releasing Standards 2002 │
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│ └───[ RELEASE RULES ]───┘ │
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│ PROPERS: │
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│ - No previous releases may be propered based on audio or video bitrate. │
│ - Propers will be allowed in the case of technical problems, bad aspect │
│ ratio, sync problems, skipping/freezing, interlaced, bad ivtc, etc │
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│ VIDEO: │
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│ - Must be at least 1750kbit average, with a maximum of 2450kbit. │
│ - TMPGENC: 2 pass minimum │
│ - CCE: 4 pass minimum │
│ - Menus allowed. (see notes) │
│ - Subtitles allowed (and encouraged for foreign releases) │
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│ AUDIO: │
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│ - Minimum 224kbit @ 44.1khz (regardless of source) │
│ - Secondary tracks shall be 224 or LESS │
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│ PACKAGING: │
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│ - All releases must be BIN/CUE. (remove path from cue files) │
│ - Must be packed with RAR, compression is NOT ALLOWED │
│ and broken into 15 or 20 MB volumes │
│ - Recovery record recommended. │
│ - Must have SFV │
│ - Must have NFO │
│ - NFO MUST INCLUDE: │
│ Group name │
│ Title │
│ Actual SVCD release date │
│ DVD release date │
│ US theater release date │
│ Audio bitrate │
│ Video minimum/average/maximum bitrate │
│ Movie runtime/length │
│ IMDB/adultdvdempire link │
│ Number of rars per cd (eg. 44x15MB) │
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│ SAMPLES: │
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│ - REQUIRED │
│ - Minimum 30 seconds, maximum 1 full minute in length and in separate │
│ folder marked 'SAMPLE'. │
│ - MUST be taken from the movie - NOT encoded separately. │
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│ DIRECTORY NAMING: │
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│ - Directory names shall NOT exceed 64 characters. │
│ - All releases are to include production year. │
│ - DO NOT indicate Ripping method (CBR/VBR/CCE/TMPGENC and so on), │
│ WS (widescreen), DVD/SVCD 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): │
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│ ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ │
│ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz │
│ 0123456789 . -_ │
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│ - All Release directories, regardless of year, shall be named │
│ according to Movie.Name.Year.Source.Codec-Group │
│ (i.e. Movie.Name.Year.DVDRip.SVCD-Group) │
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│ - 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. │
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│ └───[ NOTES TO THE RULES ]───┘ │
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│ Source related notes: │
│ - Source shall be DVD Only, no exceptions! │
│ - DVD Screeners shall be clearly marked in the directory name and the │
│ nfo shall contain presence of studio watermarking, or lack thereof. │
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│ Ripping related notes: │
│ - Movies should be ripped in their most widescreen format available. │
│ - Group Watermarks WILL NOT BE ALLOWED IN ANY CASE. │
│ - NO intros, outros, betweenos, or any other form of defacement of the │
│ movie including possible menus will be tolerated. │
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│ └───[ GROUPS & MEMBERS ]───┘ │
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│ SVCD 2002 revision was organized by: │
│ - vimVam - ne14a69 - │
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│ Respects to the original SVCD council organizers: │
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│ iV - V4F - 4HM - XPD - DvCS - PTi - TBH - TWiLiGHT │
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│ SVCD 2002 has been approved by the following groups: │
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│ EPiC - V4F - aNBc - DEiTY - TheWretched - iFO - WiDE │
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│ DvCS - PMM - TBH - SChiZO - ESVCD - PTi │
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│ Also signed by: │
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│ DMR - VCDWS - tNB - SportsVCD - iNFiNiTY - NAPALM - TmN │
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│ Special thanks to the TDX 2002 rules for their layout and guidelines. │
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