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    I am looking for a list of country codes and tuning space for the various TV tuner cards. They all seem to use the same list, and I haven't been able to find one anywhere.

    My specific need is for the USA country and cable TV tuning space, but a list of all of them would be nice. Might help a few others too.
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    The country code should be the code according to ITU-T standard E.164, from what I can tell. I believe this is the same as those used for international telephone dialing codes. Thanks to Wikipedia.org for ease of finding. : )

    Some country codes: 1: U.S.; 44: UK; 61: Australia; 55: Brazil; 3: Canada; 86: P.R. of China; 33: France; 49: Germany, etc.

    Tuning spaces are used to keep track of frequency tables, which are used to tune a specific signal (such as a TV channel). Therefore, if you have multiple ways of bringing in a multi-channel video signal into your computer, you would have one frequency table for each set of channels, and each set would be referred to via a "tuning space"...

    Microsoft Windows XP and DirectX 9 provide 5 default tuning spaces, which are kept track of in the registry. They are referred to by name by Windows and whatever application refers to them, but generally use 1 of 2 possible input types, "0" or "1". 0 is cable, and 1 is antenna. These are the numbers to use for Tuning Space in VirtualVCR, I believe.

    The reason this is provided for as a separate entry from the "Antenna/Cable" radio buttons is that it is possible to have multiple inputs of video signal into your machine, with more than one input card. Also, or in concert with this, applications (programs) can create their own, new, tuning spaces through the use of an API hook into Windows. I've read accounts of programmers attempting to do so, and running into problems when going beyond tuning space 1, with tuning space "2", for example. In VirtualVCR, try leaving it at 0 and just setting the country code. Otherwise, try 0 or 1.

    I'm not an expert, but this all is what my initial research yields. I still have to try this for myself, too!



    Originally Posted by The village idiot
    I am looking for a list of country codes and tuning space for the various TV tuner cards. They all seem to use the same list, and I haven't been able to find one anywhere.

    My specific need is for the USA country and cable TV tuning space, but a list of all of them would be nice. Might help a few others too.
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