Audio and video formats let profiles reward or penalize specific technical characteristics. Whether a format boosts or blocks a release depends entirely on the score assigned to it in the quality profile — the format itself just defines what to match.
Dolby Vision
Matches any release labelled Dolby Vision in the release title.
name: Dolby Vision
description: If desired, add this to your profiles with a score of 1000.
tags:
- Colour Grade
- HDR
conditions:
- name: Dolby Vision
negate: false
pattern: Dolby Vision
required: false
type: release_title
tests: []
The description recommends a score of 1000 when you want Dolby Vision releases to be strongly preferred. In profiles where Dolby Vision is not desired, set the score to 0 or leave the format out of the profile entirely.
HDR10+
Matches releases labelled HDR10+. Unlike HDR (which uses required: false to catch any HDR variant), HDR10+ uses required: true to match only explicit HDR10+ releases.
name: HDR10+
description: If desired, add this to your profiles with a score of 100.
tags:
- Colour Grade
- HDR
- TRaSH
conditions:
- name: HDR10+
negate: false
pattern: HDR10+
required: true
type: release_title
tests: []
HDR
The HDR format is a broad catch-all sourced from TRaSH Guides. It matches any of the following labels in the release title:
DV with HDR FallbackHDR / HDR10 / HDR10+HLGPQRlsGrp (Missing HDR) — matches known-good groups whose metadata does not always include the HDR flag
name: HDR
description: TRaSH HDR Format
tags:
- HDR
- TRaSH
conditions:
- name: DV with HDR Fallback
type: release_title
required: false
negate: false
pattern: DV with HDR Fallback
- name: HDR
negate: false
pattern: HDR
required: false
type: release_title
- name: HDR10
negate: false
pattern: HDR10
required: false
type: release_title
- name: HDR10+
negate: false
pattern: HDR10+
required: false
type: release_title
- name: HLG
negate: false
pattern: HLG
required: false
type: release_title
- name: PQ
negate: false
pattern: PQ
required: false
type: release_title
- name: RlsGrp (Missing HDR)
negate: false
pattern: RlsGrp (Missing HDR)
required: false
type: release_title
tests: []
SDR (no WEB-DL)
Matches 2160p releases that have no HDR flag and are not from a WEB-DL or WEBRip source. This is used to penalize SDR Blu-ray encodes at 4K, which typically look worse than their HDR counterparts.
WEB-DLs are excluded from this match because many streaming services natively deliver SDR 4K and those releases are still considered valid quality sources.
TrueHD
Matches releases containing TrueHD in the title. Negation conditions ensure releases with conflicting audio labels (Dolby Digital, Dolby Digital +, DTS, FLAC) do not trigger a false match.
name: TrueHD
description: Matches 'TrueHD' Regex Pattern and negates any other audio types that might conflict.
tags:
- Audio
conditions:
- name: TrueHD
negate: false
pattern: TrueHD
required: true
type: release_title
- name: Not Dolby Digital
negate: true
pattern: Dolby Digital
required: true
type: release_title
- name: Not Dolby Digital +
negate: true
pattern: Dolby Digital +
required: true
type: release_title
- name: Not DTS
negate: true
pattern: DTS
required: true
type: release_title
- name: Not FLAC
negate: true
pattern: FLAC
required: true
type: release_title
tests: []
Atmos
Matches releases that include Atmos in the title. This typically means Dolby Atmos object-based audio, which may be layered on top of TrueHD or Dolby Digital+.
name: Atmos
description: Matches 'Atmos' Regex Pattern
tags:
- Audio
- Dolby
conditions:
- name: Atmos
negate: false
pattern: Atmos
required: true
type: release_title
tests: []
DTS-X
Matches object-based DTS-X releases. Negation conditions prevent false matches against base DTS, DTS-HD HRA, DTS-HD MA, TrueHD, FLAC, PCM, and Dolby Digital variants.
name: DTS-X
description: ''
tags:
- Audio
- Codec
conditions:
- name: DTS-X
negate: false
pattern: DTS-X
required: true
type: release_title
- name: Not AAC
negate: true
pattern: AAC
required: true
type: release_title
- name: Not Basic DTS
negate: true
pattern: Basic DTS
required: true
type: release_title
- name: Not TrueHD
negate: true
pattern: TrueHD
required: true
type: release_title
# ... additional negations for FLAC, PCM, Dolby Digital variants
tests: []
DTS-HD MA
Matches DTS-HD Master Audio releases. Uses the same negation pattern as DTS-X to avoid conflicts with other lossless or higher-tier audio formats. A release with both DTS-HD MA and DTS-X in the title matches DTS-X, not DTS-HD MA.
name: DTS-HD MA
description: Matches 'DTS-HD MA' Regex Pattern and negates any other audio types that might conflict.
tags:
- Audio
conditions:
- name: DTS-HD MA
negate: false
pattern: DTS-HD MA
required: true
type: release_title
- name: Not DTS-X
negate: true
pattern: DTS-X
required: true
type: release_title
- name: Not TrueHD
negate: true
pattern: TrueHD
required: true
type: release_title
# ... additional negations
tests: []
Dolby Digital +
Matches Dolby Digital Plus (EAC3) releases. Negates DTS, FLAC, PCM, TrueHD, and AAC to avoid false matches on releases that carry multiple audio tracks.
name: Dolby Digital +
description: Matches 'Dolby Digital +' Regex Pattern and negates any other audio types that might conflict.
tags:
- Audio
conditions:
- name: Dolby Digital +
negate: false
pattern: Dolby Digital +
required: true
type: release_title
- name: Not AAC
negate: true
pattern: AAC
required: true
type: release_title
- name: Not DTS
negate: true
pattern: DTS
required: true
type: release_title
- name: Not TrueHD
negate: true
pattern: TrueHD
required: true
type: release_title
# ... additional negations
tests: []
AAC
Matches releases where AAC is the primary audio codec. Negates all higher-tier audio types so the format only triggers when AAC is the best audio present, not just listed as a secondary track.
Surround sound channels
Two channel-count formats are included for use in profiles that want to differentiate based on surround configuration:
- 5.1 Surround — matches releases labelled with 5.1 channel audio
- 7.1 Surround — matches releases labelled with 7.1 channel audio
Both use required: false, meaning they match on the presence of the pattern without requiring anything else.
Video codecs
x265 (HD)
Matches 720p and 1080p releases encoded in x265. The format explicitly negates 2160p so that it does not affect 4K releases — x265 is standard at 4K and not penalized there.
name: x265 (HD)
description: >-
This matches all 720/1080p (HD) releases that are encoded in x265.
Change the score of this format to 0 or remove entirely to allow H265 releases.
tags:
- TRaSH
- x265
conditions:
- name: Not 2160p
negate: true
required: true
resolution: 2160p
type: resolution
- name: x265
negate: false
pattern: x265
required: true
type: release_title
tests: []
In the Movies profiles, x265 (HD) is given a score of -10000 to block HD x265 re-encodes, which are usually lower quality than x264 at the same resolution. If you prefer x265 releases at 1080p, set the score to 0 in Profilarr.
AV1
Matches releases encoded with the AV1 codec. AV1 is a modern, open codec that offers better compression than x265, but hardware decode support is still limited on older devices.
name: AV1
description: Matches the 'AV1' Regex Pattern
tags:
- Codec
- Bleeding Edge
conditions:
- name: AV1
negate: false
pattern: AV1
required: true
type: release_title
tests: []
Other codecs
- x264 — matches H.264/AVC releases
- VP9 — matches VP9-encoded releases (common in some YouTube rips)
- VVC — matches Versatile Video Coding (H.266) releases
- Xvid — matches older Xvid-encoded releases, typically SD