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

[Diego Biurrun]

On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 09:04:53AM -0400, a.guru at sympatico.ca wrote:
> In MPlayer, the acronym "bps" is used in
> different places to mean four things:
> 
>  - bits per second
>  - bytes per second
>  - bits per sample
>  - bytes per sample
> 
> Traditionally, in general usage, "bps" means
> "bits per second" and "B" is used for "byte(s)".
> 
> It would certainly be dubious to want to fix
> this ambiguity in the whole code (variables
> and strings), but I would propose making the
> following change restricted to output to the user
> (who in general is not an MPlayer code hacker):
> 
>  - use "B/s" instead of "bps" to mean
>    "bytes per second" in output strings.

Thanks, patch applied.

> Also, help/help_mp-sv.h misused "bps" instead of
> "fps" in one place.

Committed separately.

Diego