Content:Files:Video

This expands on the special fields for video files that should be supplied.

Note:

On most video files, you will also need to fill in the audio and subtitle information as well!

Length | Censored | Quality | Source | Resolution | Aspect Ratio | Video Codec | Video Bitrate | FPS | Video Flags

Censored

This only applies to animes that have both an uncensored and a censored version. If it only has one, leave this setting as the default: Unknown.

Quality

• This is a very arbitrary field. It depends completely on the eye of the beholder. You should not put too much meaning into it, but rather use it as a general pointer of quality.
• This field should not be used to rate releases from different groups. Use anime-group comments/votes to express opinions about such.
• This field should be considered per group: When multiple releases exists from a group it can (and should) be used to differentiate them.
• Although there have never been any written rules; quality is usually bound to source. Ie. DVD -> very high, DTV -> high, VHS -> low, etc.. It is generally ok to follow this scheme, but don't go about creqing just because of it. There are many good reasons for not following it.
• Note that 'very high' quality rating is not reserved for the theoretical perfect release, or bound to DVD source or anything like that. It can be used more freely to differentiate.
• If you want to request a change, check the history of the file first. It might have some useful information (discussion) about why the current rating was selected and save you from a humiliating deny.
• Feel free to discuss this system in our forum/channel, but never start a personal creqing spree to "reform" it.

Source

Here you can set the source of the raw (unsubbed) anime. If you don't know the source, leave it as "unknown". If you find a tag like "(S)VHS" or "DVD" in the filename, choose the according option from the dropdown-menu. Sometimes, it's ok to make an educated guess: For animes that are released fansubbed shortly (within days/weeks) after they aired in Japan, you can safely assume "DTV" (Digital TV) as source. Another case for educated guessing is "HKDVD" (Hongkong-DVD) - the video-quality may be ok for them, but the translation is usually horrible, which is how you can spot them.

When creqing this field you should provide some sort of proof unless the old value is obviously wrong or set to "unknown". This means that you should be sure about the change and not just base it on assumptions. For example, don't creq DTV -> HDTV based on resolution/quality/filesize/etc. only.

Video Flags

• Clean video: set this flag if there is nothing hardsubbed in this file. RAWs are always clean.
• Wrong Aspect Ratio: If the file was encoded with the wrong viewing aspect ratio, check this box. One way to tell whether this is true is if what should be a circle on the screen isn't completely round, but rather elliptic.

Trivial fields

These fields can be supplied manually when adding, but not creqed. They should be automatically set by avdump and are not possible to change after verification.

Length

How many hours, minutes and seconds the file lasts. Just check in your favourite media player. If you have a file that won't display its length correctly, try to use avdump to determine the length.

Resolution

The actual pixel resolution of the video. Width x Height. It should not be confused with display (playback) resolution.

Aspect Ratio

The playback aspect ratio of the video.

FPS

Frames per second. This should be set to 0 if the video is VFR.

Video Flags

• Anamorphic: for an explanation of this, see here.
• VFR: Variable Frame Rate.