[MEncoder-users] Using SI units in mencoder

Tue Feb 8 13:08:56 CET 2005

On Tuesday, 08 February 2005 at 13:01, Alexey wrote:
> I still dont understand. Are you using the old or the new definition for
> kilobytes?
> 
> old defintion: 1kb=1024b
> new defintion: 1kb=1000b

There's only one definition of kilobyte. It's 1024 bytes. Anything else is
just plain wrong. And the symbol for kilobyte is "KB", "kb" is kilobit
(=1000bits).

R.

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