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- High.Definition.x264.Standards.Revision.3.0-HDX
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- High Definition x264 Standards
- Revision 3.0 :: 2008-10-13
- [ Intro ]
- More than a year has gone by since last revision of the hi-def x264 movie
- standards and a lot has changed since. We've seen the introduction of standalone
- players able to handle h264 in mkv containers, and the death of HDDVD.
- It's been a year where a lot of groups have started releasing movies, and more
- TV shows in HiDef has started to appear.
- This rule set will target HDDVD and BluRay sourced 720p and 1080p movie and TV-show rips.
- [ Previous Releases ]
- These rules do not apply to previous releases, and propering for those reasons
- will not be tolerated.
- [ General ]
- 1.1) Release must be packed in RAR. 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.<720p/1080p>.BluRay.x264.<PROPER/READ.NFO/REPACK>-GROUP
- TV.Show.SxxExx.<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".
- [ Audio ]
- 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.
- 2.2) 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, unless original language isn't english.
- 2.4.1) Original language audio track or English dubbed track must be used.
- 2.4.1.1) English dubbed movie without original audio track must be tagged -DUBBED-.
- 2.4.1.2) DUBBED release only allowed if no release with secondary English dubbed audio track exists.
- 2.4.2) If original language is not English:
- 2.4.2.1) English Subtitles must be included.
- 2.4.2.2) English dub is allowed as a secondary audio track.
- [ Video ]
- 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.
- 3.4) Crop the black borders from the source. Crop to the widest frame possible.
- 3.3.1) Resizing is not allowed on 1080p encodes. Either crop to closest mod8/mod16 without overcropping, or crop().addborders()
- 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.
- 3.11.1) For aspect ratio equal or above 1.78 horizontal resolution must be 1280.
- e.g. AR of 2.35:1 will be 1280x544.
- 3.11.2) 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.
- 3.12.1) For aspect ratio equal or above 1.78 horizontal resolution must be 1920.
- e.g. AR of 2.35:1 will be 1920x816.
- 3.12.2) 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:
- 3.13.1) 720p - Minimum 4000 kbit, maximum 8000 kbit. Minimum bitrate for animation is 2300 kbit.
- 3.13.2) 1080p - Minimum 8000 kbit, maximum 14000 kbit, though not more than source-2000kbit. Minimum bitrate for animation is 5000 kbit.
- [ Subtitles ]
- 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.
- [ Total Size ]
- 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.
- [ Suggested encode settings ]
- 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
- 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
- [ Signed By (in alphabetic order) ]
- 1920, CiNEFiLE, CLASSiC, CULTHD, CYBERMEN, DEFiNiTE, HALCYON, hV, Japhson,
- ORPHEUS, REAVERS, SECTOR7, SEPTiC, SiNNERS, SUNSPOT, TiMELORDS, VOA
- [ These rules apply from 2008-10-20 00:00:00 GMT (1224460800 unixtime) ]
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