[Ffmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Allowing (k,M,G and B) unit postfixes

[Michael Niedermayer]

Hi

On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 10:20:18PM -0400, Rich Felker wrote:
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> > maybe we could have lowwer case for one and upper case for the other
> > or we just follow all the standard comitees and add kiB, MiB and GiB
> > after all using k to mean 2 things is just wrong and theres no real standard
> > which say k=1024 ...
> 
> What about just omitting the 1024-based units? They're generally
> irrelevant in codec settings anyway... That would make both the SI
> fanboys and us happy.

ok
there one case though where 1024 would be nice to have the vbv buffer
size

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