Purpose:
- Recommend that Inflight Entertainment supply chains adopt approved LMT codes in all transactions where languages are specified.
- Identify resources to validate any LMT codes before use.
- Identify (or provide) dictionary resources to convert from LMT codes to legacy (Vendor Specific) ISO-639 variants
- Publish an ‘APEX minimum requirement’, defining support for 50 languages.
- Establish some convention to define the role of a language asset (avoiding any corruption/extension of LMT language code)
Role definitions: Spoken Dialog, Audio Description, Subtitle, Caption etc.
- Publish a (non-binding) timeframe for the principal IFE partners to adopt LMT language codes.
Working Group Members:
- Andy Beer, Spafax (Co-Chair)
- Wilson Capitao, Above (Co-Chair)
- Michael Valdez, Panasonic
- Eric Silverstein, West Entertainment
- Dickson Mbogo, Thales
- Joshua Smith, Anuvu
- Yonah Levenson, LMT
- Tim Willis, Safran
- Richard Kroon, EIDR
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