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Author Topic: Two character language code for Hindi. Stephen Furley Film God Posts: 3059 From: Coulsdon, Croydon, England Registered: May 2002 posted 07-04-2016 08:46 AM                     I have seen both HI and HN; which should it be? I'm making some DCPs from trailers, and want to get it right.  |  IP: Logged Harold Hallikainen Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 906 From: Denver, CO, USA Registered: Aug 2009 posted 07-04-2016 10:13 AM                        I see it as HI for the digital cinema naming convention. http://isdcf.com/papers/ISDCF-Doc7-DigitalCinemaLanguageCodes.pdf Harold  |  IP: Logged Jim Cassedy Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1661 From: San Francisco, CA Registered: Dec 2006 posted 07-04-2016 10:29 AM                     According to info I have, HI is the correct code for Hindi (Source "Digital Cinema Naming Conventions" Appx 1a, Pg 5) HN and HIN are listed as 'obsolete' in Appx 1c "Obsolete Codes" ALSO >When used to indicate subtitle language, if the language code is in UPPER CASE, the subtitles are generated in real time by the projector. If the language code is lower case, the subtitles are burned into the image already."< (same source)  |  IP: Logged Leo Enticknap Film God Posts: 7474 From: Loma Linda, CA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 07-04-2016 12:28 PM                        Thanks Jim. I suspected that there was a language code distinction between XML subtitles and burnt-in, but never got around to looking up the ISDCF rules to find out what it was. Stephen - are your Hindi subtitles transliterated into the Latin alphabet, or do they actually use Devanagari script? If the latter and they are XML (not burnt-in), are there any problems with the projector recognizing and rendering the character set?  |  IP: Logged Harold Hallikainen Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 906 From: Denver, CO, USA Registered: Aug 2009 posted 07-04-2016 01:25 PM                        Because subtitles are required to include a font file, it SEEMS like there should not be a character issue. On closed captioning, devices always use their internal font. The USL CCR-100, CCR-200, and CCH-100 have a pretty extensive character set ( http://ftp.uslinc.com/ftp/Products/CCR-100/Documents/Technical/CharacterSet130614.txt ). It has worked on every left to right language I've tried. They do not yet support right to left text which is WAY COMPLICATD in the Unicode bidirectional algorithm. Harold  |  IP: Logged Stephen Furley Film God Posts: 3059 From: Coulsdon, Croydon, England Registered: May 2002 posted 07-04-2016 05:27 PM                     Jim, thanks for the info re. upper and lower case; I didn't know about that. Leo, neither. They're burned in English subtitles on Hindi films. The trailers come from various sources, whatever we can get. Sometimes they come from the distributors, sometimes from Internet sites, and sometimes from video extracted from DVDs. The films themselves are sometimes supplied as DCPs, and sometimes as DVDs which nearly always seem to be either very good - for SD video - quality, or very bad. The DCPs always seem to be encrypted, with the KDM usually expiring at or just before midnight on the day of the screening. The DVDs are nearly always all region NTSC, letterboxed, with the subtitles often partly in the picture area, and partly in the bottom black bar. These are not our screenings; they are for an Indian arts group, mainly dance, which does occasional film screenings. We just supply a projectionist for them.  |  IP: Logged Annli Com Expert Film Handler Posts: 140 From: ShibuPaul-India Registered: May 2014 posted 07-05-2016 07:00 AM                        Hindi Naming, Difrent DCP Creaters Using Difrent Naming Policy !! XXXXXXXX_TRL-3_HN-XX_IN-UA_51-HN_2K_20160615_PFLDC But Another Compony Used Naming HI_HN XXXXXXXXX-T-R_TLR_S_HI-XX_IN-U_51-HN_2K_20160621_SDC_OV ShibuPaul  |  IP: Logged Stephen Furley Film God Posts: 3059 From: Coulsdon, Croydon, England Registered: May 2002 posted 07-08-2016 05:16 AM                     Annli, Yes, you're seeing the same thing as I am. Jim, I'd never seen that lower case thing before, and then yesterday something, not an Indian film, turned up with it.  |  IP: Logged Carsten Kurz Film God Posts: 4340 From: Cologne, NRW, Germany Registered: Aug 2009 posted 07-08-2016 06:34 AM                     The lowercase definition for burnt-in subs is fairly new. - Carsten  |  IP: Logged Jim Cassedy Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1661 From: San Francisco, CA Registered: Dec 2006 posted 07-16-2016 11:35 PM                     Several posts back, I quoted this rule from the DCP naming document: "When used to indicate subtitle language, if the language code is in UPPER CASE, the subtitles are generated in real time by the projector. If the language code is lower case, the subtitles are burned into the image already." I'm head-tech for a week-long Japanese Film Festival later this month. Here's an actual example of the above rule from one of the films I was ingesting today with 'burned-in' subs. Compare with the CPL above it.  |  IP: Logged

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