Other important tags for Movies / Dvd’s:
COMPLETE:
A release is COMPLETE when it’s a DVD5, so it didn’t need any adjustments and therefore is untouched. Most DVD?s though are DVD9, so they need to be compressed to DVD5. DVD5 is much more wanted since all DVD players can read these DVD?s, and almost every DVD burner can burn them. DVD9 discs are less popular, they are more expensive and not many people can burn a DVD9. When a release is DVD9 and not compressed, DVD9 is added to the release title. When it’s a DVD9 and it’s compressed nothing is added to the release title.
LiMiTED:
A movie is LiMiTED when it has a limited theater run. Generally smaller films (such as art house films) are released as limited. The scene considers a movie limited when it has a generally opening in less than 300 UK theaters, or in less than 500 USA theaters. In the scene jargon, it’s usually called 300 UK screens, or 500 USA screens. Officially, it’s not the opening weekend’s number of theaters that counts, but the peak of the number of theaters. For example; when a movie has 275 UK screens in the opening weekend, and 1 week later it has 325 screens, it’s not limited.
iNTERNAL:
An internal release is done for several reasons. The most common reason is because it has already been released before, and with iNTERNAL in title, the release won’t be nuked. It happens quite often with DVDs. Also lower quality theater rips are done iNTERNAL so not to lower the reputation of the group. An iNTERNAL release is available as normal on the groups affiliate sites, but they can’t be traded to other sites without request from the site ops. Although some releases are iNTERNAL, they still can be very popular. Apart from DVDs also other types of warez are done internal. For mp3’s the tag is different concerning internal. For mp3 releases its release-title-year-Group_iNT. That way the internal release won’t be calculated into the group’s stats. This avoids mp3 groups from doing a lot of internal releases, since they would just do that to get better stats. Some groups rename iNTERNAL to iNT, since this much shorter.
Subbed:
In the case of a VCD, if a release is subbed, it usually means it has hard encoded subtitles burnt throughout the movie. These are generally in Malaysian/Chinese/Thai etc, and sometimes there are two different languages, which can take up quite a large amount of the screen. SVCD supports switch able subtitles, so some DVDRips are released with switch able subs. This will be mentioned in the NFO file if included.
Unsubbed:
When a movie has been release subbed before, an unsubbed release may be released.
Custom.Subbed:
A release can also be custom subbed. Movies often are released earlier in the USA then they are released in Europe. These movies mostly contain a few subtitles, the ones that are spoken in the USA. European groups can create custom subtitles and add these to the DVD. For example, when Dutch subtitles were added to a NTSC DVDr: Madagascar.2005.Custom.NL.Subbed.NTSC.DVDr-Group. Off course, it’s not just European, also Japanese movies can be subbed English for example.
Dubbed:
If a film is dubbed, it is a special version where the actors’ voices are in another language. Dubbed versions of English-language films are for people who don’t understand English.
STV:
STV stands for Straight To Video. These movies were never released in theaters, but they were immediately released on video/DVD. Therefore, a lot of sites do not allow these movies.
SE:
SE stands for Special Edition. Like the name says, it’s a special DVD edition of a movie. Often special editions contain extra material like trailers, interviews, making-of.
DC:
DC stands for Director’s Cut. A director’s cut is a specially edited version of a movie that is supposed to represent the director’s own approved edit of the movie. It is often released some time after the original release of the film, where the original release was released in a version different from the director’s approved edit. ‘Cut’ is synonymous with ‘edit’ in this context.
DL:
DL stands for Dual-Language, meaning the DVD contains more than one audio language. Synonym: ML.
FS / WS (Aspect Ratio Tags):
These are FS for Full Screen and WS for Widescreen (letterbox).
LanguageCodes:
The language of the movie and the language of the subtitles can also be mentioned in the release name. Sometimes the language is fully mentioned in the release name, such as DUTCH, NORDiC, GERMAN and iTALiAN. Sometimes it’s shortened, then the ISO standard country abbreviations are used, those are the same which are used for www-domains, for example: NL (Dutch), NO (Nordic), DE (Germany), IT (Italian). For the full list of country abbreviations, click here. When there are multiple languages or subtitles, MULTi or MULTiSUBS is mentioned.
Extended:
Sometimes movies are released again on DVD because now the movie is extended. They have put back deleted scenes. For example, E.T. was produced first in 1982 and years later it was brought on DVD again, but now digitally remastered and extended.
DigitallyRemastered:
Digitally remastered means that an older not-digital movie has been re-editted remastered and is released on DVD. Some really old movies look very bad compared to the new digital movies. Then they remaster it to make it look better, edit it, recolor it etcetera. Remastering generally implies some sort of upgrade to a previous existing product, frequently designed to encourage people to buy a new version of something they already own.
Rated/Unrated:
Rated means a movie is censored, unrated logically means uncensored.
Recode:
A recode is a previously released version, usually filtered through TMPGenc to remove subtitles, fix color etc. Whilst they can look better, it?s not looked upon highly as groups are expected to obtain their own sources.
R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6 (Region Code):
A DVD gets released in a certain geographical area, or region. This was designed to stop people buying American DVDs and watching them earlier in other countries or for older films where world distribution is handled by different companies. A lot of players can either be hacked with a chip, or via a remote to disable this. The regions are:
Region 1 – U.S., Canada, U.S. Territories
Region 2 – Japan, Europe, South Africa, and Middle East (including Egypt)
Region 3 – Southeast Asia and East Asia (including Hong Kong)
Region 4 – Australia, New Zealand, Pacific Islands, Central America, Mexico, South America, and the Caribbean
Region 5 – Eastern Europe (Former Soviet Union), Indian subcontinent, Africa, North Korea, and Mongolia
Region 6 – Peoples Republic of China
More general important tags:
PROPER:
Due to scene rules, whoever releases a certain release the first, has won that race. For example, when a group releases the CAM version of Titanic the first. If there is something “wrong” with the release (poor quality, out-of-sync, audio errors etc.) and another group has a better/correct version, it can release it and add PROPER to the release title to avoid being nuked. However, the source must be the same as the original release. For example: A poor quality CAM release by group A and group B releases their CAM release PROPER. A Telesync release doesn’t PROPER a CAM release, because the source is different. PROPER is the most subjective tag in the scene and a lot of people will generally argue whether the PROPER is better than the original release. The reason for the PROPER should always be included in the NFO.
REPACK:
If a group releases a bad rip, they will release a Repack which will fix the problems. It’s similar to PROPER but then done by the same group.
Rerip:
A previous rip was bad, now it’s ripped again properly.
READNFO:
When something important is mentioned in the NFO or as a replacement for PROPER, READNFO can be added into the tag directory.
Important tags for mp3 releases:
TV: Audio from television material
Radio: Audio from radio material
WEB: Audio downloaded from an online music store
VLS: Vinyl Single (1-2 tracks)
EP: Vinyl Maxi-single (2-5 tracks)
LP: Vinyl Full-length Album
CDS: CD Single (1-2 tracks)
CDM: CD Maxi-single (2-5 tracks)
CDR: CD-Recordable (CD-R)
DVD: Audio from a DVD. Often cabaret shows or concert/music dvd’s.
DVDA: Audio tracks which come on a DVD as a bonus. The DVDA part can’t be played by normal DVD players.
MD: Audio from a MiniDisk
TAPE: Music from a tape
Promo: Promotional
XX: Imported
RETAiL: Retail
Liveset: A record of a DJ mixing live. Mostly recorded using:
- DAB: Digital Audio Broadcasting is a system used to broadcast radio programs.
- SAT: Music broadcasted via satellite channels.
- CABLE: Music broadcasted by radio channels via cable radio.
Bootleg: Illegally recorded and pressed record. Often live recordings, sometimes studio out-takes. The name comes from people who hid a microphone in their boots!
Labelcode/Catnumber:
This is a code which is like a unique code for every music cd/vinyl/etc. The code isn’t just some number, but it contains values which are recognizable. For example: Catnumber: WNRD2371 is a cd from WieNerwoRlD Ltd.
Clean: The music is censored. Generally sexual or violent words, which are replaced by ‘bleeps’ or stripped.
Explicit: The music is not censored.
Tags just for Movies/TV rips:
Sources:
DVDrip: A copy of the final released DVD. If possible this is released PRE retail (for example, Star Wars episode 2) again, should be excellent quality. DVDrips are released in SVCD and DivX/XviD.
VHSRip: Transferred off a retail VHS, mainly skating/sports videos and XXX releases.
TVRip: TV episode that is either from Network (capped using digital cable/satellite boxes are preferable) or PRE-AIR from satellite feeds sending the program around to networks a few days earlier (do not contain “dogs” but sometimes have flickers etc). PDTV is capped from a digital TV PCI card, generally giving the best results, and groups tend to release in SVCD for these. VCD/SVCD/DivX/XviD rips are all supported by the TV scene.
Additional source info for TV Rips:
HDTV (High Definition Television):
Digital recording from a source stream at either 1080i or 720p at a bitrate from 19,39mbps or higher.
PDTV (Pure Digital Television):
Other resolution digital recordings from source streams at a bitrate of 10+mbps or higher. It is a label given to files that were ripped directly from a purely digital source, having less resolution than HDTV. This is accomplished by using a TV tuner card capable of receiving Digital Video Broadcasts or C-Band.
SDTV (Standard Digital Television):
Digital recording or capture from a source stream at any resolution with bitrate under 10mbps.This includes DirecTiVo but also captures from digisat or digicable with analog capture cards.
TVRip (Analogue TV Rip):
Recorded from analog TV, lowest quality of all TV rips.
More TV info:
Season/Episode code:
A code which shows the season and episode of a TV show.
For example: S01E12 is season 1 episode number 12.
DSR (Digital Stream Rip):
Digital stream rip is a rip that is captured from a digital source stream, such as a HDTV or DVB transmission.
DVB (Digital Video Broadcast):
The standard for direct broadcast television in Europe and the US Based on MPEG2 Compression.
DSR (Digital Satellite Rip):
Recorded from Digital Satellite, quality is similar to PDTV.
PPV (Pay Per View television):
Pay television programming for which viewers pay a separate fee for each program ordered.
(Console) Games, 0day and Applications don’t have a lot of extra tags. Off course the app’s version, and other tags like repack and proper can be used. Here are the other tags for 0day and applications:
AIO
AIO stands for All-In-One, means an all-in-one software pack. For example: Microsoft Office, which contains Word, FrontPage, Publisher, Access etc.
RTM
RTM means Release To Manufacturing. This release is leaked before it’s available in stores. A RTM version of a software title is the final retail version, the one that you will be seeing in stores.
VLM
VLM stands for Volume License Key. This means that the cracked application is already licensed, and therefore doesn’t require activation after installation.
Crack Type:
For example crack or keygen.
Machine
On what machine is it compatible, such as Nokia phones, PDA etc.
OS
With which operation system is it compatible. For example Windows / Mac etc.
PlayStation:
PS2:
A copy of a Playstation 2 game released to CD.
PS2DVD:
A copy of a Playstation 2 game released to DVD.
MULTi3 / MULTi4 / MULTi5 etc
This means the release contains multiple languages. The number at the end indicated the number of languages.
PlayStation Portable:
UMDRip:
This applies only to Playstation Portable (PSP) games, and it means that some stuff was ripped from the original game because that stuff was not required or was ripped to save space. For example languages or movie files.
UMDMovie:
The Playstation Portable (PSP) is also capable of playing movies. Though a PSP can’t playback DVD’s or CD’s, only UMD discs. So movies for the PSP get released on UMD discs.
PSXPSP:
This is a PSX (Playstation 1) game playable on a PSP (Playstation Portable) using custom PSP firmware.
USA, JAP, EUR
Especially PSP releases, but also other console releases, are sometimes tagged as USA, JAP and EUR. These are alternative regions, and they replace PAL and NTSC. USA is off course the United States of America, JAP is Japan and EUR is Europe.
256MS, 512MS, 1GB and 2GB
These tags only apply to PSP releases, and they show the required size of an UMD disc. UMD discs can contain 2 gigabyte maximum. When a game is 100mb it fits on every UMD disc, but when a game is 900mb it will only fit on 1GB and higher UMD discs.
Source: aboutthescene.com
