The Dutch TV Releasing Standards 2006 Revision 1.1 20 feb 2007 Audio: - Must be VBR MP3 or AC3 (no transcoding on AC3) - Must be stereo when it's available - ABR is not VBR - 44.1 kHz or 48 kHz allowed - MP3 files must be normalized - No multi-language Video: - Must be 25 FPS - Keyframes must be inserted <= 20 seconds and must be inserted according to scene changes and framesizes as determined by the codec or encoding application Codec: - Only XviD 1.0 final+ and x264 allowed - 2 or more passes must be used - No dupes based on codec, use internal instead - Quartel Pixel not allowed due to incompatibility issues Resolution: - Width: 512 - 672 for WS/letterboxed, 448 - 640 for FS - Height and width must be a multiple of 16 - Cropping is required. Over cropped releases are a technical flaw. - Changing ARs, in that case the cropping must be applied to the image that presents more pixels - Subtitles must not be cropped - Aspect ratio must be within 5% of the original aspect ratio. Size: - Episodes shall not overlap on CDs - 20-23 min: 175 MB - 23-35 min: 233 MB - 35-50 min: 350 MB - 50+ min: 700 MB - 100+ min: 1400 MB (2 x 700MB) - 2% under the maximum size is allowed Packaging: - All releases must be AVI, MP4 or MKV. - Must be packed with RAR, no compression - 15.000.000 bytes or 20.000.000 bytes archives - Recovery record allowed - Must have SFV - Must have NFO - NFO must include: * Group name * Title * Episode title (if any) * Release date * Air date * Video resolution * Video bitrate * Video length * Audio bitrate * Number of RARs * Source Credits: - Cutting not allowed - Downsampling not allowed Sample: - Required +/- 1 min - In a seperate 'Sample' folder - Must be taken from the released material, not encoded separately - .ts on DSR/PDTV/HDTV sources with questionable quality Propers: - Only based on technical flaws, not on ripper's choice (like codec) - Proper reason must be mentioned in the .nfo Directory naming: - No indication of ripping methods - No genres or channel - Allowed characters are a-zA-Z0-9.-_ - Session tags should be like SxxEyy, where xx is the season and yy is the episode number - Miniseries should be tagged without seasontag, only Eyy - Releases with more than 1 CD must be named CD1, CD2, etc. * Each directory should contain an SFV file * Only 1 sample - Dutch spoken series should be tagged accordingly with the tag 'DUTCH' - Flemish spoken series should be tagged 'FLEMISH' - Other languages and dutch subbed should be tagged 'NLSUBBED' - Must be tagged WS, if its letterboxed or widescreen. FS tag is not allowed. - READ.NFO tag is allowed if an important note is included in the .nfo Sources: - HDTV: Digital recording from a source stream at either 1080i or 720p at a bitrate from 19,39mbps or higher - PDTV: Other resolution digital recordings from source streams at a bitrate of 10+mbps or higher. - DSR: Other resolution digital recordings with a bitrate lower than 10 mbps - TVRip: Analog recordings or digital recordings that were converted from digital -> analog -> digital ( This includes DVD-recorders, boxes that have analog output, etc ) Dupes: - FLEMISH doesn't dupe DUTCH, DUTCH doesn't dupe FLEMISH - HDTV dupes PDTV/DSR if resolution is not HR (760+ width) or full HDTV resolution - PDTV dupes DSR, DSR dupes PDTV - TVRip dupes PDTV/DSR/HDTV - FS dupes WS, WS doesn't dupe FS - FS doesn't dupe WS if it contains more picture (use proof .jpg sample) - Letterboxed is WS Quality control: - If a group releases PDTV/HDTV or DSR releases, and there are doubts if this is actually true, a Transport Stream file (.ts) must be given by the group to prove it Signed by: MiSTAKE, DiFFERENT, STELLA, JUPiLER, TDF, RENTALTV