DVD, Blu-ray and UHD Blu-ray Remuxes should be muxed as an MKV & include

• Video
• Untouched video from the best available source.
• Audio
• Best available primary audio from the available sources in the film's native/original language.
• Lossless mono/stereo tracks must be converted to FLAC.
• Multichannel LPCM tracks must be converted to DTS-HD Master Audio.
• The embedded AC-3 audio from Multichannel TrueHD tracks may be muxed in for compatibility as a secondary track.
• All other audio codecs must be left untouched.
• Upmixed multichannel track (if available).
• Subtitle
• Forced PGS/SUP subtitle track in the original language (if available)
• Non-SDH English PGS/SUP subtitles (if available)
• Retail SRT subtitles (if available)
• Chapters (named chapters if available)
• Commentaries (if available)

Restricted WEB download content in HD and UHD resolution

• WEB-DL from Netflix, Disney+, Amazon etc. must be muxed as an MKV and include
• Best available primary audio track in the film original language
• English subtitle (good custom translation can be muxed in if retail subtitle are not available).
• Non-SDH English subtitle, Dubtitles, additional foreign subtitles, chapters (if available).
• HD encodes sourced from WEB Releases.
• Three UHD (SDR, DV, HDR/DV HDR) WEB releases and two HD WEB Release(s) may coexist for a given Movie/TV Show.
• Captures from television networks/VOD/feeds in HD resolution.
• HD encodes sourced from WEB Releases.

Encodes from Blu-ray or above listed sources

• One UHD x265 and two 1080p or two 720p x264 or one SD encod(s) may coexist for a given Movie/TV Show.
• 1080p: One slot goes to a quality oriented encode (highest quality encode available).
• 1080p: Second slot goes to a compact/compressed/mini encode (No x265 HD mini encodes are allowed).
• A special slot is assigned for a UHD sourced 1080p encode.
• 720p: recommended for sources without 1080p details.
• If a good quality 1080p x264 encode exists for a given Movie/TV Show the 720p encode must be skipped.
• Primary audio track must be encoded from lossless source (if available) into DD+ (E-AC-3) (preferably), AC-3 or DTS if it is 5.1 or 7.1. and FLAC/AAC if it is 2.0/1.0.
• Muxed audio tracks on UHD resolution must follow the same rules as remuxes.
• Commentaries should be muxed in (encoded is better) (if available).
• English dubs are the only dubs allowed for encodes, remuxes and WEB-DL.

Anime

• Anime uploads must have either English subtitles (with Japanese audio track) or English audio.
• Two slots have been reserved for Seadex releases of which the first slot goes for the Best release and the second goes for the Alt release.
• n slots for anime remuxes.
• One slot per WEB source (CR, AMZN, NF).

Releases without English subtitle

Remux from custom Blu-rays, upscaled content.

Early releases of English movies with foreign hardcoded subtitles, Screeners, cam-rips etc.

Web content publicly/freely available for download.

Encodes/WEB-DL/Remuxes with muxed-in non-english dubs.

Re-encodes of encodes, Re-encodes of WEB-DL content (if the original bitrate is already sufficiently small)

SD release (if HD release available), 720p release (if 1080p release available), HDR WEB-DL (if hybrid HDR/DoVi WEB-DL available)

HEVC/AV1 SDR WEB-DL in HD resolution (unless its proven to be better than H.264)

Trailers / Previews / NFOs

Releases with muxed descriptive audio track.

Releases with altered filename.

Encodes with multichannel lossless audio tracks in HD resolution.

Non-member single TV Episodes (must be uploaded in folder containing all episodes for a particular season).

Any member/internal release can

• Co-exist with an external release.
• Trump an external release if it's deemed superior.
• Not co-exist with an existing member release.
• Trump a member release if it's deemed superior or trump their own release with V2/REPACK release (that uses superior video or additional subtitle and/or audio track etc.)

Any external release can

• Co-exist with an existing member release if it's deemed superior.
• Trump an external release if it's deemed superior.
• Not co-exist with an existing external release.
• Not trump a member release.
• Be trumped if a better release exists on public sites.

Whenever releases of the same content and format are uploaded, the later upload will be deleted as a dupe, except if the first upload violates a rule or has a defect.

The addition of foreign subtitles from other retail sources can be used as a trumping reason for a pre-existing remux.

A pack containing uniform content can replace a mixed content pack.

Scene and P2P content cannot coexist.

While every upload should be sourced from what is considered the best source for a given movie, a special slot may be granted to uploads sourced from an inferior source that provides an alternative viewing experience.

Only one release per format for each title is allowed (some release with alternate version such as director’s cut and member release may co-exist).

1080p HDR/DoVi WEB-DL can be trumped by any 2160p HDR WEB-DL. Do not upload 1080p HDR WEB-DL when 2160p HDR WEB-DL already exists or expected shortly.