[MEncoder-users] Using SI units in mencoder

[Alexey]

I still dont understand. Are you using the old or the new definition for
kilobytes?

old defintion: 1kb=1024b
new defintion: 1kb=1000b

Alexey


On Tue, 2005-02-08 at 00:32 -0800, RC wrote:
> On Mon, 7 Feb 2005 16:00:48 +0100
> Tetsuo Yokozuka <yokozuka at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> No, mencoder uses kilobytes.  Just because hard drive manufacturers have
> a long-running scam to rip-off customers by redefining terms, doesn't
> change their meaning.  Just because a US government agency was
> presumably bribed by the industry to legitimize the scam, doesn't mean
> we should go along with it.
> 
> > It is too confusing for not using the appropriate units and notations.
> 
> You are absolutely right.  You should be complaining to hard drive
> manufacturers, though, not here.
> 
> I hear some ice-cream manufacturers are selling "half-gallons" of
> their products, which are less than half a gallon...  Should we
> re-define terms every time they get miss-used in order to scam people?
> 
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