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

[Rich Felker]

On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 05:33:12PM +0200, Guillaume POIRIER wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 9/1/05, Ivo <ivop at euronet.nl> wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Ah, I see what you mean. Seconded.
> 
> Ivo, do you wanna apply this baby?  :-)

I'm fine with this as long as no kabibytes and such appear in
mplayer..

Rich