What does DVDrip, BRrip, DVDscr, PPVrip, TS, TC means

Have you seen films downloading sites movie titles look like “Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011) BRRip “ or “Drive (2011) DVDScr 325mb”. And some times these names get more complicated with added words like “extended”, “Xvid”, “1080” etc. So what do they means ?Is it important to know them?

Yes it it is important to know them if you download films from these sites. They tell some valuable information about the video you are downloading. The source where of this video, technique used to convert this video file format, file size resolution are some of the information in them. I going to provide you with meanings of these words here.

DVDrip – The video was ripped from  a DVD of the film which usually have good picture quality.

BRrip/BDrip – It is ripped from a Blu-ray disk and has excellent quality and resolution. Better than DVDrips.

CAM – These are video recorded in theaters using a Digital video camera. Some times the videos are shaking because of hand held camers. Some time u may see people walk across the screen and laughing. Sound can be very poor quality usually recorded with on board mic of the camera. Has very poor picture quality usually dark reddish images.

TS – Stand for Telesync and this is a video similar to CAM version but audio is recorded from direct feed usually the headphone line in the theater. Even though this also have poor quality audio.

TC – Stand for Telecine and video is directly copied from the actual film reel using a telecine machine. The quality may vary according to the equipment used for ripping. May have inferior quality than DVD because the poor quality reel.

R5 – This refers to ripped from DVD released in Region 5 (India, Russia, Africa). They telecine from films usually have good quality. May be the English audio track was added later so it can have poor audio quality. (Line tag indicate this). this may also lack picture quality as no image processing was done after ripping. This is low coast DVD release.

It may helpful to know the DVD regions. See them here.

Scr/DVDScr – This are ripped from promotional VHS tape/ DVDs. The quality may be differ according to the equipment used and skill of the ripper. Some times good as DVDrip. But usually these contain banners saying promotional video that will disrupt viewing. Some scenes are B&W.

PPVrip – This is video captured from Pay Per View source. This  can be PPV channel, or PPV in hotel rooms. these missing some scenes. The video quality may be sometimes poor.

WP – Workprint is unfinished copy of the film. This may missing visual effects music, overlays, ediiting. So if it is a film with lost of effects this will look like total mess.

VODrip – Captured from on demand source such as cable or satellite TV and connecting computer to get them. The quality may vary according to the technology whether it directly download the source file using a software or screen capture which give low quality.

HDTV/TVrip/DSR – These are types of TV capturing using different methods they can vary according to the source.

DDC – Digital distribution copy. This are same as Screeners but distributed digitally. Low quality than R5 but higher than CAM.

PDVDrip – This DVDs sold before the release of the actual DVD release. These May be pirated copies of movies sold as DVD that mean DVDScr, CAM or TS. These are not DVDrip.

These will be some of the most common types of videos available. There are some other TAGs in movie titles which will be told inn the second part of this post.