Additional information
Language code list
Language (Language code letter), Language code
Japanese (ja), 1001
Bhutani (dz), 0426
English (en), 0514
Esperanto (eo), 0515
French (fr), 0618
Estonian (et), 0520
German (de), 0405
Basque (eu), 0521
Italian (it), 0920
Persian (fa), 0601
Spanish (es), 0519
Finnish (fi), 0609
Chinese (zh), 2608
Fiji (fj), 0610
Dutch (nl), 1412
Faroese (fo), 0615
Portuguese (pt), 1620
Frisian (fy), 0625
Swedish (sv), 1922
Irish (ga), 0701
Russian (ru), 1821
Scots-Gaelic (gd), 0704
Korean (ko), 1115
Galician (gl), 0712
Greek (el), 0512
Guarani (gn), 0714
Afar (aa), 0101
Gujarati (gu), 0721
Abkhazian (ab), 0102
Hausa (ha), 0801
Afrikaans (af), 0106
Hindi (hi), 0809
Amharic (am), 0113
Croatian (hr), 0818
Arabic (ar), 0118
Hungarian (hu), 0821
Assamese (as), 0119
Armenian (hy), 0825
Aymara (ay), 0125
Interlingua (ia), 0901
Azerbaijani (az), 0126
Interlingue (ie), 0905
Bashkir (ba), 0201
Inupiak (ik), 0911
Byelorussian (be), 0205
Indonesian (in), 0914
Bulgarian (bg), 0207
Icelandic (is), 0919
Bihari (bh), 0208
Hebrew (iw), 0923
Bislama (bi), 0209
Yiddish (ji), 1009
Bengali (bn), 0214
Javanese (jw), 1023
Tibetan (bo), 0215
Georgian (ka), 1101
Breton (br), 0218
Kazakh (kk), 1111
Catalan (ca), 0301
Greenlandic (kl), 1112
Corsican (co), 0315
Cambodian (km), 1113
Czech (cs), 0319
Kannada (kn), 1114
Welsh (cy), 0325
Kashmiri (ks), 1119
Danish (da), 0401
Kurdish (ku), 1121
Country code list
Country, Country code, Country code letter
Argentina, 0118, ar
Finland, 0609, fi
Australia, 0121, au
France, 0618, fr
Austria, 0120, at
Germany, 0405, de
Belgium, 0205, be
Hong Kong, 0811, hk
Brazil, 0218, br
India, 0914, in
Canada, 0301, ca
Indonesia, 0904, id
Chile, 0312, cl
Italy, 0920, it
China, 0314, cn
Japan, 1016, jp
Denmark, 0411, dk
Korea, Republic of, 1118, kr
Kirghiz (ky), 1125
Sinhalese (si), 1909
Latin (la), 1201
Slovak (sk), 1911
Lingala (ln), 1214
Slovenian (sl), 1912
Laothian (lo), 1215
Samoan (sm), 1913
Lithuanian (lt), 1220
Shona (sn), 1914
Latvian (lv), 1222
Somali (so), 1915
Malagasy (mg), 1307
Albanian (sq), 1917
Maori (mi), 1309
Serbian (sr), 1918
Macedonian (mk), 1311
Siswati (ss), 1919
Malayalam (ml), 1312
Sesotho (st), 1920
Mongolian (mn), 1314
Sundanese (su), 1921
Moldavian (mo), 1315
Swahili (sw), 1923
Marathi (mr), 1318
Tamil (ta), 2001
Malay (ms), 1319
Telugu (te), 2005
Maltese (mt), 1320
Tajik (tg), 2007
Burmese (my), 1325
Thai (th), 2008
Nauru (na), 1401
Tigrinya (ti), 2009
Nepali (ne), 1405
Turkmen (tk), 2011
Norwegian (no), 1415
Tagalog (tl), 2012
Occitan (oc), 1503
Setswana (tn), 2014
Oromo (om), 1513
Tonga (to), 2015
Oriya (or), 1518
Turkish (tr), 2018
Panjabi (pa), 1601
Tsonga (ts), 2019
Polish (pl), 1612
Tatar (tt), 2020
Pashto, Pushto (ps), 1619
Twi (tw), 2023
Quechua (qu), 1721
Ukrainian (uk), 2111
Rhaeto-Romance (rm), 1813
Urdu (ur), 2118
Kirundi (rn), 1814
Uzbek (uz), 2126
Romanian (ro), 1815
Vietnamese (vi), 2209
Kinyarwanda (rw), 1823
Volapük (vo), 2215
Sanskrit (sa), 1901
Wolof (wo), 2315
Sindhi (sd), 1904
Xhosa (xh), 2408
Sangho (sg), 1907
Yoruba (yo), 2515
Serbo-Croatian (sh), 1908
Zulu (zu), 2621
Malaysia, 1325, my
Singapore, 1907, sg
Mexico, 1324, mx
Spain, 0519, es
Netherlands, 1412, nl
Sweden, 1905, se
New Zealand, 1426, nz
Switzerland, 0308, ch
Norway, 1415, no
Taiwan, 2023, tw
Pakistan, 1611, pk
Thailand, 2008, th
Philippines, 1608, ph
United Kingdom, 0702, gb
Portugal, 1620, pt
USA, 2119, us
Russian Federation, 1821, ru
Glossary
Analog audio
Direct representation of sound by an electrical signal. See also Digital audio.
Aspect ratio
The width of a TV screen relative to its height. Conventional TVs are 4:3;
widescreen models are 16:9.
Digital audio
Indirect representation of sound using numbers. See also Sampling
frequency and Analog audio.
Dolby Digital
A multi-channel audio encoding system developed by Dolby Laboratories
that enables far more audio to be stored on a disc than PCM encoding. See
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also PCM (Pulse Code Modulation).
DRM
DRM (Digital Rights Management) copy protection is a technology designed
to prevent unauthorized copying by restricting playback, etc. of material on
devices other the PC (or other WMA recording equipment) used to record it.
For detailed information, please see the instruction manuals or help files that
came with your PC (or other WMA recording equipment) and/or software.
DTS
A multi-channel audio encoding system developed by Digital Theater
Systems that enables far more audio to be stored on a disc than PCM
encoding. See also PCM (Pulse Code Modulation).
EXIF (Exchangeable
A file format developed by Fuji Photo Film for digital still cameras. Digital
Image File)
cameras from various manuafcturers use this compressed file format which
carries date, time and thumbnail information, as well as the picture data.
File extension
A tag added to the end of a filename to indicate the type of file. For example,
".mp3" indicates an MP3 file.
ISO 9660 format
International standard for the volume and file structure of CD-ROM discs.
JPEG
A standard file format used for still images. JPEG files are identified by the
file extension ".jpg".
MP3
MP3 (MPEG1 audio layer 3) is a compressed stereo audio file format. Files
are recognized by their file extension ".mp3".
MPEG audio
An audio format used on Video CD
PBC
A system of navigating a Video CD
(PlayBack Control)
recorded onto the disc.
PCM
Digital audio encoding system found on CDs. Good quality, but requires a lot
(Pulse Code
of data compared to Dolby Digital, DTS and MPEG encoded audio. See also
Modulation)
Digital audio.
Progressive scan
All the lines that make up a video picture are updated in one pass (compared
video
to interlace which takes two passes to update the whole picture).
Regions
These associate DVD-Video discs and players with particular areas of the
world. See DVD-Video regions on page 21 for more information.
Sampling
The rate at which sound is measured to be turned into digital audio data. The
frequency
higher the rate, the better the sound quality. CD is 44.1 kHz; DVD can be up
to 96 kHz. See also Digital audio.
/Super VCD
s and some DVD discs.
/Super VCD
through on-screen menus
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