Country codes / SPRM12

[skeg64]

Hi,
SPRM12 contains the country code for parental management. Does anyone have a table of these codes? My maestro manual only says that the code for the USA is 840. Anyone have the others?
Cheers.

[cona812]

Maestro manual page 14-47 (using command sequences, chapter 14). There is a table with all language codes.

Cona

[skeg64]

yes, but that's the codes for audio/subtitle/menu languages. SPRM 12 is different to these (eg. there is no code for "USA" in that table, just one for "english").

[Séamus]

I have the country code table for SPRM12 in a book, so if you let me know which country codes you want, because it's quite a list.

[skeg64]

I would love to get the whole list somehow, but for the moment could you please tell me:

Australia
United Kingdom
Canada
Japan

That would be great! Thanks!

[mpucoder]

I just found this with google - funny, last time I looked it did not show up.
http://userpage.chemie.fu-berlin.de/diverse/doc/ISO_3166.html

[Séamus]

Well, there you have them :p

[skeg64]

sweeet! thanks! I had tried searching with google too but came up with nothing.

Does anyone know if this is always set by the DVD player manufacturer, or do they sometimes just set it to, say, "US" despite which country the unit is sold in? I would think they would want to sell the same model in various countries if they could, so do you think they would strictly follow this table or not?
What about software dvd players, obviously they must use the same value despite the country it is used in?
I plan to do some testing so I can find these things out, but if anyone knows the answers it would save me some time!

If this register is strictly set to the correct value, it could potentially be used as a new form of RCE, ie. match the region with the country and decide if they correlate correctly.
Not that this would be any harder to remove than the current form of RCE...
Still it would be cool to have a movie that can "detect" what country you are in.

Cheers.

[Séamus]

This is straight from the book:

"SPRM12 holds the country code value for parental management features of DVD-Video titles. The DVD-Video specification requires that SPRM12 hold a two-digit alphabetical country code as defined by ISO-3166 (Alpha2). The default value for SPRM12 is "not specified", which is a value of 65535."