[FFmpeg-soc] [soc]: r772 - dirac/libavcodec/dirac.c

[Diego Biurrun]

On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 11:49:32AM -0400, Bobby Bingham wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Aug 2007 17:31:52 +0200
> Marco Gerards <mgerards at xs4all.nl> wrote:
> 
> > Diego Biurrun <diego at biurrun.de> writes:
> > 
> > >> @@ -2097,6 +2183,16 @@ static int upconvert(DiracContext *s, ui
> > >>  
> > >> + * @param blocks  amount of blocks
> > >
> > > number of blocks?
> > 
> > Isn't "amount of blocks" correct English?
> > 
> > I fixed all comments.
> 
> I believe that both "amount of blocks" and "number of blocks" are
> technically correct, but "number" sounds better to me.  Maybe somebody
> else can actually explain why that is though, because I'm really not
> sure.

Amount sounds like a non-countable quantity to me, while number is
something that can be counted.  The blocks we're talking about here
clearly fall into the latter category.

Diego