How to setup Custom Formats (French)

So what is the best way to set up the Custom Profiles and which one to use with which scores to get French and English Audio?

Keep in mind that most releases are MULTi (understand DUAL audio, original and French audio) and it will be difficult to only have French audio, unless you are willing to get 720p, or you are only looking for French movies.

Therefore, you will need a slightly modified MULTi Custom Format than the one find in the original guide. This one also recognize VO and VFF in the name and rename the import. This is important for the score to match before and after the import and to avoid download loop.

Basics

It is quite important that you follow and understand what is envisioned by Trash's guide:

• Adding Custom Formats, as explained in How to import Custom Formats.
• Setting up a quality Profile to make use of the Custom Formats, as explained in How to setup Custom Formats | Basics section.

I am only interested in French subs (VOSTFR)

There is two options:

Using Trash's guide and Bazarr

• Go have a look at those examples: How to setup Custom Formats | Examples section
• Set up Bazarr. It will do an amazing job for getting your subtitle on every movies.
• Enjoy your movies with subs.
• (Optional) Add the VOSTFR Custom Format with a score of 1000.

Using the following examples and the VOSTFR Custom Format

• Continue to read this page.
• Ignore any mention of MULTi Custom Formats.
• Add the VOSTFR Custom Format with a score of 1000.

Usages

There is two ways of using those French Custom Formats, with and without the Guide's original Group tiers (which can be found there: Collection of Custom Formats). To illustrate this, you will see an "Original mix (optional)" section in each of the examples below. You need to understand that if you add the Custom Formats from this optional section if Radarr do not find a MULTi you will still have a good scoring for single audio.

Examples

French Audio Versions

Those are all optional and only there to rename your release or to avoid a certain type of French Audio. Examples:

• You do not want VFQ or VQ audio, in this case you will put them at -10000 instead of 0.
• You only want VOSTFR, in this case you will ignore any mention of MULTi Custom Formats and give the VOSTFR Custom Format a score of 1000.

Releases you should avoid

In my opinion, this is a must-have for every Quality Profile you use. All these Custom Formats make sure you don't get Low Quality Releases.

Unwanted - [CLICK TO EXPAND]

Custom Format	Score	Trash ID
BR-DISK	-10000	ed38b889b31be83fda192888e2286d83
x265 (HD)	-10000	dc98083864ea246d05a42df0d05f81cc
3D	-10000	b8cd450cbfa689c0259a01d9e29ba3d6
FR LQ	-10000	48f031e76111f17ea94898f4cdc34fdc

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Breakdown and Why

• BR-DISK : This is a custom format to help Radarr recognize & ignore BR-DISK (ISO's and Blu-ray folder structure) in addition to the standard BR-DISK quality.

• x265 (HD): This blocks/ignores 720/1080p (HD) releases that are encoded in x265. - More info HERE.

  Don't use this together with the following Custom Format x265 (no HDR/DV)

• 3D: Is 3D still a thing for home use ?

• FR LQ: A collection of known Low Quality French groups that are often banned from the the top trackers because the lack of quality or other reasons.

Optional - [CLICK TO EXPAND]

This includes optional Custom Formats made by Trash for the original guide. Please be sure to understand what those do before adding them. Moreover, it includes two Custom Formats you may use at your own risk if you want MULTi:

• Bad Dual Groups, which can be controversial for people looking for MULTi release. I encourage you to not use it.
• Scene, it may include Scene groups already in FR Scene Groups Custom Format. Which is used for fallback to be sure to get a MULTi release.

Optional - [CLICK TO EXPAND]

Custom Format	Score	Trash ID
Bad Dual Groups	-10000	b6832f586342ef70d9c128d40c07b872
DV (WEBDL)		923b6abef9b17f937fab56cfcf89e1f1
EVO (no WEBDL)	-10000	90cedc1fea7ea5d11298bebd3d1d3223
No-RlsGroup	-10000	ae9b7c9ebde1f3bd336a8cbd1ec4c5e5
Obfuscated	-10000	7357cf5161efbf8c4d5d0c30b4815ee2
Retags	-10000	5c44f52a8714fdd79bb4d98e2673be1f
Scene	-10000	f537cf427b64c38c8e36298f657e4828
x265 (no HDR/DV)	-10000	839bea857ed2c0a8e084f3cbdbd65ecb

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Breakdown and Why

• Bad Dual Groups: [Optional] These groups take the original release, then they add their own preferred language (ex. Portuguese) as the main audio track (AAC 2.0), What results after renaming and FFprobe that the media file will be recognized as Portuguese AAC audio. It's a common rule that you add the best audio as first. Also they often even rename the release name in to Portuguese.

• DV (WEBDL): This is a special Custom Format that Block WEBDL with Dolby Vision but without HDR10 fallback.

  This Custom Format works together with the normal DV Custom Format that you can use to prefer Dolby Vision.

  Most WEBDL from Streaming Services don't have the fallback to HDR10, What can results in playback issues like weird colors if you want to play it on a not Dolby Vision compatible setup.

  Remuxes and Bluray have a fallback to HDR10.

  Hint

  [DV WEBDL] = This custom format you need to score depending of your personal use and setup.

  • If you only watch your movies on a setup that completely supports Dolby Vision from start to end then give it a score of 0 or just don't add it.
  • If you (or family members you share your collection with) have a setup that doesn't support Dolby Vision then you should add this with a score of -10000.

• EVO (no WEBDL): This group is often banned for the low quality Blu-ray releases, but their WEB-DL are okay.

• No-RlsGroup: [Optional] Some indexers strip out the release group what could result in LQ groups getting a higher score. For example a lot of EVO releases end up stripping the group name, so they appear as "upgrades", and they end up getting a decent score if other things match.
• Obfuscated: [Optional] (use these only if you dislike renamed releases)
• Retags: [Optional] (use these only if you dislike retagged releases)
• Scene: [Optional] (use these only if you dislike scene releases)

• x265 (no HDR/DV): This blocks 720/1080p (HD) releases that are encoded in x265. - More info HERE.

  But it will allow x265 releases if they have HDR and/or DV

  Being that some NF releases won't be released as 4k, but you want to have DV/HDR releases.

  In your quality profile use the following score for this Custom Format: -10000

  Don't use this together with x265 (HD), Only ever include one of them

Prefer HQ Encodes-1080p

If you prefer HQ Encodes (Bluray-720/1080p)

Use the following main settings in your profile:

Remux-1080p

If you prefer 1080p Remuxes (Remux-1080p)

Use the following main settings in your profile:

Prefer HQ Encodes-2160p

If you prefer UHD Encodes (Bluray-2160p)

Use the following main settings in your profile:

Remux-2160p

If you prefer 2160p Remuxes (Remux-2160p)

Use the following main settings in your profile:

Acknowledgements

• A big thanks to all the people that helped me to test those profiles and formats (and continue to do so).
• A special one to MySuperChef and PrL for their time and explanations.
• A special one to Piou and Wikoul who are potentially both now in asylums due to the amount of testing.
• TRaSH, for granting me a small space on his guide for this, his knowledge, and his friendliness.