:: Video Terms Defined ::
                   REViSED EDiTiON April 12th 2002  - By RichieRags -=sUk=-
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                    This will be updated once in a while, when its needed.
                    I have changed a few things since the last one, and
                    added some new stuff too.

                    If you think that anything mentioned in here is wrong
                    or have any comments or suggestions, please contact
                    me via HM, and i will check it out.
 
                    In alphabetical order:
                    1. Cam
                    2. DiVX;-)
                    3. Divx
                    4. DVD rip
                    5. Screener
                    6. SVCD
                    7. Telecine
                    8. Telesync
                    9. VCD
                  10. Workprint


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==[ CAM ]=====================================================
A "CAM" is a movie taped in the cinema, using a 500$ camcorder.Not to be  confused
with "TELESYNC"  - see below.

Sound is recorded using the mic on the camcorder which results in quite  "hollow"
sound sometimes.

CAM´s are often referred to as "shit cam's". They are often  re-encoded by the group
"ShadowRealm", downsized to about 300mb and mostly spread using filesharing programs like "kazaa", "morpheus", "Edonkey" and usenet. These are *not* DivX but SMR also known as "nAVI".

It´s not rare to see people walking in front of the camera or hearing them talk.
If i'm not mistaking, a release of "The Phantom Menace" had some guys smoking a
bong in the row in front of where the CAM was positioned.

I don't think there´s ever a reason to watch a CAM as a TELESYNC  will *often*
appear right after and the quality is *really* low.
It ofcourse depends on what your personal quality preferences are.


==[ DiVX ;-) ]==================================================
This is the DiVX format known to most. Not to be confused with the below mentioned
Circuit City Divx format.

DiVX:-) was at first based on a hacked microsoft mpeg4 AVI codec.
Version 3.11 is probably the best known and most used version. Ofcourse the people
behind the format has gotten greedy by time, and have now with their version 5.0 of
the product completely sold out to the scene they once were a part of and are now
also working with big scary cooperations in making hardware DiVX 5.0 players.

The 5.0 codec package was requiered to be either registered or filled with spyware
proggies.

Nothing much else to say about DiVX. Most of you already know about it :0)


==[ Divx ]=====================================================
Notice the spelling. I left out ;-) in the end, there's a perfectly good explanation
for that.

The DiVX;-) as we know it, is not the first video format to use that name.
Some years ago, a company called Circuit City invented a format called Divx, which
stood for Digital Video Express. The format was meant to be a "pay per view" format
where you had a player, much like a DVD player, with a built in modem. You could then
buy a movie on a disc, put it in the player and then it would call up a database via the
modem, which would enable the movie to be played a certain amount of times, or within a certain period of time.

Luckily the Divx format died very fast and the DVD disc took over the market.

Beware that a lot of people sell "Divx" players and movies on places like "Ebay". Those players will NOT play the DivX;-) we know and love but is made for the Circuit City Divx.

As all the databases that the player used for verification have been shut down, there is absolutely no reason to own one of their players, as it is impossible to watch a movie on it. Talk about a format that took a nosedive.

Read more about the obsolete format here:
http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/0,,sid9_gci213637,00.html



==[DVD Rip]====================================================
Should anyone here not know what this is, i better exlain. I think the term itself
is rather self-explanatory, but here we go.

A DVD Rip is a movie where the AVI file (if it is DivX) has been sourced directly
from the VOB´s on the DVD. This ensures the highest quality possible and is the
standard of movie backup today.


==[ SCREENER ]=================================================
Screeners have evolved big time since "Swordfish" which was if I remember correctly
the first DVD Screener. They usually came on regular VHS tapes, often 3rd or 4th
generation but were still the best quality available.

Around the 2002 Academy awards, DVD screeners emerged and TCF´s "Lord of the rings", FastEmpires "Monsters INC" and other great titles were brought to the scene.

Those releases revolutionized the scene and brought *almost* DVD  quality movies into our homes, movies that were still showing at the local cinema.

==[ SVCD ]==================================================
SVCD is often, by people who dont know better, compared to VCD qualitywise.
That is about as far from the truth as you can come. SVCD is way superior to VCD
and is basically a small DVD. Just like DVD, SVCD is also encoded in Mpeg2 but has
a slightly lower bitrate. The max. bitrate for a standard SVCD is 2600kbps. where DVD
is 9400kbps. Resolution is 480x480 for ntsc and 480x576 for pal movies.

Quality is comparable to Laserdisc or digital broadcast television (not HDTV) which is
somewhere around 2000kbps.

The average movie is split over 2 cd's, sometimes 3, depending on the length of the movie.

Like DVD, SVCD also being Mpeg2, supports multipass VBR encoding. This results in a very effective use of the space available for the movie.

The SVCD standard was made by the Chinese VCD consortium (Philips-Sony-Matsushita-JVC), as an opponent to DVD. The chinese government wanted to make sure that the money made on the enourmous movie industry, were kept inside the country.
Normal VCD's had also been a standard in China for a very long time, and they did'nt think that people would pay for the expensive DVD discs.

The SVCD disc became quite a big success in the far east, but never really got its grip in the North American and European market. Probably because of the intense marketing of the DVD disc, and the fact that the SVCD movies were spread over several CD's.

Read MUCH more about SVCD here: http://www.uwasa.fi/~f76998/video/svcd/overview/

==[ TELECINE ]================================================
With a telecine machine, you can transfer straight from the reel to a digital device,
such as a labtop computer. Quality often resembles a VHS cassette or better.

TELECINE's are not seen very often probably because the telecine machine costs somewhere around 200.000$ which is an awful lot of money, even if you are an established pirate.

Read more about a telecine machine here:
http://www.innovation-tk.com/products/millennium/page.html


==[ TELESYNC ]=================================================
TELESYNC´s are kinda like CAM´s but with external audio source and often higher quality video.

The audio is sourced from audio plug's normally intended for the  hearing impaired for
their headsets. Somewhat resembles to the plugs on a walkman.

The camera is placed on a tri-pod or in the projector booth to get the best image
available. Most are decent quality but there will often be a great amount of blurryness
or colorbleed and often a blue tint.

Up until a couple of years ago TELESYNC's were taped in 4:3 which  resulted in horrible cropping of the image. Sometimes up to 50% was cut off. Luckily the people who make them try to do them in widescreen and then add black borders when they are sourced to VCD.


==[ VCD ]====================================================
VCD is probably the best known format for video piracy. Based on Mpeg1 technology the VCD format was developed in China in 1993. It became a huge success, China produced more than 2 million VCD players a year, just for the far east market.

The VCD standard never caught on to the European and American market. They already had several tape based video systems like BetaMax, Video2000 and the best known VHS. The real movie enthusiasts bought their movies on Laserdiscs.

The quality of a hardware professional encoded VCD is comparable to SVHS. The resolution is 352x240 and the bitrate is fixed on a whopping 1150kbps.

Countries like Malaysia, China and so on are flooded by pirated movies on VCD and they are sold on small markets for less than 1$US.

Read more about VCD here: http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Forum/2496/vcdfaq.html

==[ WORKPRINT ]================================================
WORKPRINT`s are rarely seen these days. They are temporary transfers to VHS that are used for different pre-release screenings, like sound editing for example.
Quality varies, but is often resembling VHS screeners. Some sound is often missing, music tracks missing and they may contain scenes that are not in the final cut of the movie, which also makes them interesting for movie enthusiasts.

Reel changes sometimes occur, with a countdown in between.

The film often has "cigarette burns" and other type's of dirt on it, as it has'nt been mastered yet.


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(R) RichieRags for DivxStation 2002.

Some more from Onez:

internal = when a movie is ripped when there is already a release
so if Vite rips a movie and DVL re-rips for them selves it's an Internal

proper = when a movie is ripped when there is already a release
but the first rip is bad quality, for example bad A.R. (aspect ratio)


Some more from SuperflyTNT:

Dupe = (copy)(prolly a re-encode of another already released one)

Nuked = means it's been nuked on most sites because of either itz a dupe or bad quality.

TS = telesync (camera video, and slightly better sound than a cam)

Cam = cam vid and sound

Screener = vhs screener (usually has the lil logos that pop up every once in a while  that say "property of columbia pictures", etc.)

telecine = special machine ya hook up to the projector, that usually makes sound and video similiar to a screener (rare)

DVD Screener = usually a verry nice quality screener, almost always an SVCD rip

workprint = the rip is taken from an unfinished print of a movie (microphones visible, widescreen at some points, fullscreen at others, usually has a counter)

limited = released is not very many theatres (as opposed to big movies, usually independent film type movies)

cuefix = the ".cue" file was messed up, so herez a new one

nfo fix = the nfo file was inaccurate, so herez a fixed one

repack = previous release was messed up somehow, and a repack (reRAR) (sometimes even a slight re-encode, ie. audio out of synch on 1 cd) was warranted


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Thanx guys!

Appreciate it Kitesmurf, but all credits go to RichieRags

It's his work.

phaelox

;-)

and this one next

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Thank you very much Richie. I finally found the answers to ALL those weird therms ;)

Thx!

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ANoTHER is -STV-  STRAiGHT TO ViDEO ....
:)

MoST OF EM LiKE THAT OUGHT TO BE ....

-STRB-

straight to recycle bin *lol*

nice explanation
im a bit smarter now :)
thx phae

MMeira

Thanks I leared alot reading that i knew what some of them where but some i didn't         
       thanks           ====Iwin====

i just came across this on:

DSRiP.XviD-PyRo

What can that be?
It's from a tv-rip. I think it's something with "Digital Satelite" but i'am not sure..........

yeh, also add

HDTV - High Definition TV
PDTV - Pure Digital TV
DSRIP - Digital Satelittle Rip

alanmp3

Cool info !

how about RAW?