[MEncoder-users] Using SI units in mencoder

[D Richard Felker III]

On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 04:00:48PM +0100, Tetsuo Yokozuka wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I find it annoying that neither the man page or the application itself
> uses SI units. I just ripped a DVD by specifying the target size for
> the video stream, in kB (kilobytes), following the man page, only to
> find out that mencoder does NOT use kilobytes, but kibibytes instead.
> As a result, my .avi was 15 MiB too large.

We don't like SI redefining terms on us, so I'm very opposed to
anything like this.

Rich