Scene and DVD Releases

[NiKRuLeZ]

Hi, iv noticed that most movie DVD scene releases are always around 4gb mark. Why is the original DVD (9gb - dual layer) always compressed and shrinked to fit on a single layered 4gb disc/size?

TIA.

[atrwz]

they have specific rules:

http://scenerules.irc.gs/n.html?id=2011_DVDR.nfo

[tucan]

The reason is so the movie fits on a single DVDR. this is the same reason a xvid movie is required to be either 1cd 700mb or 2cd's 1400mb

I took this from wiki
DVD-R

The scene requires DVD-Video releases to fit on a 4.7 GB DVD-R. Hence many released movies are not 1:1 copies of the retail DVDs. The latest standards revision is TDRS2K10. This ruleset appeared only two months after the 2009 , which has an addendum released to clarify a rule because of some confusion. The 2010 ruleset seems to have more similarities with TDRS2K5 than with the previous TDRS2K9 ruleset. According to the first nuke, the signing groups are crap. This resulted in a nukewar. Few days later, an addendum was released.

You can read the latest DVDR rule set here http://scenerules.irc.gs/n.html?id=2011_DVDR.nfo

Hope this helps.

[NiKRuLeZ]

Ah interesting. But what if you wanted the 1:1 copy of the DVD9?

[predateur]

DVD5 : ~4.37GB
DVD9 : the full DVD without compression or rip

[NiKRuLeZ]

Are there any trackers that specalise in DVD9 formats over DVD5?

[TONiC]

All you gotta do is wait until a COMPLETE or DVD9 tagged release appears... Half the time what is being stripped on the DVDRs you might not even bother using, ie directors commentary. When a DVDR is compressed it needs to be re-encoded - rules say you have to use Cinema Craft Encoder which is one of the best pay-for encs out there; more often than not it makes the DVD4 look better than the DVD9.

[brento]

Are there any trackers that specalise in DVD9 formats over DVD5?

bithq and cinematik

[NiKRuLeZ]

thanks

[tucan]

Read the nfo as was mentioned after the junk is stripped some time the main movie fits on the disc with no encoding the nfo will normally say "Video:UNTOUCHED" or "Video:CCE 9pass and some bitrate" Im sure the preferred way in the new rule set is to try keep the video untouched as much as possible

[ca_aok]

Ah interesting. But what if you wanted the 1:1 copy of the DVD9?
You don't go to the scene for a 1:1 copy in most cases.

Look for some sort of P2P DVDRip. For me though, the space just isn't worth it... you could download a 720p copy or even a small 1080p rip (depending on the source/length) for the same amount of space.