[MPlayer-dev-eng] "bytes per second" in user output: use "B/s", not "bps"

Ivo ivop at euronet.nl
Thu Sep 1 15:59:35 CEST 2005


On Thursday 01 September 2005 14:35, Guillaume POIRIER wrote:
> At least that last one is probably necessary. As far as the rest is
> concerned, I don't know: "bps" is common enough to be understood, when
> B/s probably is more correct, but is less readable, at least for me.
> Just like when I read "RPM = rotations per minute", FPS, BPS, all of
> those are common, an widely used.

bps might be common as bytes per second (although that's wrong), but in 
MPlayer it's also used to mean bytes and/or bits per sample. As s is the SI 
unit for seconds, I propose removing all ambiguity, at least in the output 
and maybe also in the sourcecode. There have been many times I had to 
deduce the meaning of bps by its value (2, 16, 176400, etc) and IMHO it 
should be clear at once. I.e. use b for bits, B for bytes, s for seconds 
and samples for samples.

--Ivo




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