The follow standards should be adhered to as close as possible to maintain
consistency and quality of all the rips produced by the group. We all have
downloaded a bad quality rip before and know the disappointment when we do.
The standards outlined below are for both ripping quality and for naming
conventions. 

QUALITY
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1. All rips should be a minimum of 4 pass VBR.

2. Rips should be in widescreen when available, unless you feel the fullscreen
version is necessary or wanted.

3. All .cue files should have chapters, made by dvd2svcd using the DVD chapters.

4. All audio will use a bitrate of 224.

5. All audio will be downsampled from 48Khz to 44.1Khz to adhere to svcd standards.

6. Force film shall be ON with all NTSC DVDs to pulldown to 23.97fps.

7. The average video bitrate shall be minimum 1750 and the maximum 2230.

8. CD sizes shall be either 737 or 800MB, depending on the bitrate and length of movie.

9. If unsure of any other settings/requirements ask first!!

FILENAMES AND NFOS
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1. All releases should have an .nfo file.

2. All .nfo files shall follow the format of the template provided.

3. All rar files shall be labelled as follows:

Movie.Name.CD#-iRS.partXX.rar

4. All movies shall be rarred with WinRAR v3.0

5. All dirs when upload shall be labelled as follows:

Movie.Name.Year.WS/FS.DVDRip.SVCD.iNTERNAL-iRS

6. Subdirecties shall be labelled CD1, CD2, CD3 and so on and Sample.

7. Samples shall be labelled moviename.sample-iRS.mpg, shall be in SVCD format,
and are to be 15-20MB in size.

8. All bin/cues shall be labelled "movie-iRS.bin/cue" and svcd volume label shall
be the movie title.

9. All uploads shall include an .sfv file.