GLOSSARY / LANGUAGE CODE LIST

■Title

‘Title is a unit to divide the contents on a DVD disc. Generally, one title is assigned to one movie. When a disc has two or more titles, they are numbered in sequence as title 1, title 2, etc.

■Chapter

A title on a DVD is subdivided into smaller divisions. They are refered as ‘chapters’ and numbered in sequence. You can use them to search the desired scene on a movie, etc.

■Track

Tunes (or pictures) recorded on a CD or Video CD are refered as ‘tracks’. Tracks are numbered in sequence as track 1, track 2, etc. They are useful for quick search for the desired tune (or picture).

■Dolby Digital

Dolby Digital is a digital audio format which mainly provides high-quality multi-channel audio tracks for movies. It provides up to 6 independent channels compatible with 6 speaker configurations: Left main, right main, center, left surround, right surround and subwoofer. It stores a large volume of digital sound signals as data into a DVD, etc. with a high level data-compression technology.

■DTS

DTS (Digital Theater System) is also a multi-channel digital audio format, providing 6 channel audio track. DTS encodes high-quality, 20 bit audio onto a compact disc, and a DVD with less data-compression.

■Linear PCM

A basic digital audio format used in CDs. It is based on Pulse Code Modulation (PCM), an analog-to-digital conversion technology. No compression is applied to the data.

■MPEG

There are two types of MPEG (Moving Picture Expert Group) audio format. MPEG 1 is mainly used in Video CDs. MPEG 2, improved from MPEG 1, provides high-quality multi-channel audio track up to 8 channels. MPEG 2 technology is mainly used in Europe, Australia, etc.

■Playback control

This function is recorded on a Video CD, version 2.0. Pictures, music, etc. you want to play can be selected on a screen menu shown on the video monitor.

Language code list

 

 

 

 

 

6565: Afar

6890: Bhutani

7285: Hungarian

7679: Laotian

8084: Portuguese

8469: Telugu

6566: Abkhazian

6976: Greek

7289: Armenian

7684: Lithuanian

8185: Quechua

8471: Tajik

6570: Afrikaans

6978: English

7365: Interlingua

7686: Latvian, Lettish

8277: Rhaeto-

8472: Thai

6577: Ameharic

6979: Esperanto

7378: Indonesian

7771: Malagasy

Romance

8473: Tigrinya

6582: Arabic

6983: Spanish

7383: Icelandic

7773: Maori

8279: Romanian

8475: Turkmen

6583: Assamese

6984: Estonian

7384: Italian

7775: Macedonian

8285: Russian

8476: Tagalog

6588: Aymara

6985: Basque

7387: Hebrew

7776: Malayalam

8365: Sanskrit

8479: Tonga

6590: Azerbaijani

7065: Persian

7465: Japanese

7778: Mongolian

8368: Sindhi

8482: Turkish

6665: Bashkir

7073: Finnish

7473: Yiddish

7779: Moldavian

8372: Serbo-Croatian

8484: Tatar

6669: Byelorussian

7074: Fiji

7487: Javanese

7782: Marathi

8373: Singhalese

8487: Twi

6671: Bulgarian

7079: Faroese

7565: Georgian

7783: Malay

8375: Slovak

8575: Ukrainian

6672: Bihari

7082: French

7575: Kazakh

7784: Maltese

8376: Slovenian

8582: Urdu

6678: Bengali; Bangla

7089: Frisian

7576: Greenlandic

7789: Burmese

8377: Samoan

8590: Uzbek

6679: Tibetan

7165: Irish

7577: Cambodian

7865: Nauru

8378: Shona

8673: Vietnamese

6682: Breton

7168: Scots Gaelic

7578: Kannada

7869: Nepali

8379: Somali

8679: Volapük

6765: Catalan

7176: Galician

7579: Korean

7876: Dutch

8381: Albanian

8779: Wolof

6779: Corsican

7178: Guarani

7583: Kashmiri

7879: Norwegian

8382: Serbian

8872: Xhosa

6783: Czech

7185: Gujarati

7585: Kurdish

7982: Oriya

8385: Sundanese

8979: Yoruba

6789: Welsh

7265: Hausa

7589: Kirghiz

8065: Punjabi

8386: Swedish

9072: Chinese

6865: Danish

7273: Hindi

7665: Latin

8076: Polish

8387: Swahili

9085: Zulu

6869: German

7282: Croatian

7678: Lingala

8083: Pashto, Pushto

8465: Tamil

 

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