[MPlayer-users] MPEG2 and wrong bitrate displayed?

Ville Saari 113762 at foo.bar.org
Wed Mar 31 19:42:15 CEST 2004


On Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 07:58:14PM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:

> 307.2 kB * 8 bits == 2457.6 kbit/sec

Actually 2516.6 kbit/s, because "kilo" in kbit/s always means 1000, not
1024 as in kilobytes. That's because the units kbit/s and Mbit/s are
related to kHz and MHz and therefore inherit the "real" SI meaning for
kilo and mega.

-- 
 Ville




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