What is DIMEs policy regarding reencoded videos?
A digital reencoding always involves a loss of quality, so DIME doesn’t allow reencoded videos. A digital video must be shared in its original format, specifically : • DVD-rips (DVD compressed to DIVX, VCD, SVCD, etc) are not allowed ; • VCD/SVCD/DIVX/WMV/MOV/etc bloated to mpeg2 DVD are not allowed ; • PAL to NTSC or NTSC to PAL reencoded DVDs are not allowed (Note: the PAL-M system used in Brazil is very similar to NTSC and is unlike PAL. PAL-M digital sources should be torrented in NTSC.) • Some DVD authoring programs such as TMPGenc DVD Author 1.x do not re-encode the source videos, and versions 2.0 and later of TMGenc DVD Author do not always re-encode them. However, Nero does, not retaining the original bitrate. If you have a DVD compliant mpeg2 file, please use only a proper DVD authoring software to convert it to DVD, or share the original .mpg file.
