How to Read acronyms in torrent names

Posted: Wed Dec 28, 2011 6:18 pm

Hi. While searching for Wii software I came across many repeated acronym codes written into filenames - things like "[PAL]" or "NTSC" or "MULTI5"

Obviously (wii) made sense to me, but otherwise I felt like a country bumpkin reading my first apartment listings: Det d/w g/d EiK NS 2BA 3BR. It likely makes sense when you know it... (chuckles) Is there a reference for the commonly used ones, pls?

Thanks!

Posted: Wed Dec 28, 2011 7:21 pm

your best be tis google. there are lists on there. i think i gave a couple of links on here on this topic previously. or look on the link i posted on your new member intro or search the forum Wink

Posted: Wed Dec 28, 2011 10:03 pm

PAL and NTSC are region codes

pal being europe and ntsc being the americas

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:PAL-NTSC-SECAM.svg

MULTI5 it means multiple languages that the game comes in.. in MULTI5 would be 5... usually English, German, Spanish, Italian, Dutch etc

these being the ones you should know... the others usually are the uploaders tags

other codes
http://isohunt.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1328

Posted: Sat Dec 31, 2011 2:02 pm

Wonderful! Thanks so much! I hadn't realized that digitized video used different region codes; I'd assumed that was a tape format thing. Thanks so much, and Happy New Year!
(Smiles widely)

Posted: Sat Dec 31, 2011 2:20 pm

PAL and NTSC format media are not interchangable they have to be converted if for instance you want to play a PAL encoded video on VHS tape on an NTSC player. a digital player application is another matter, its all in a thing called a codec ...a CoderDECoder

Posted: Sat Dec 31, 2011 2:56 pm

I shall attempt a lucid answer when I find out what an "acronym" is, posh words vex me.