[mythtv-users] wrong bitrate detected
Marco Nelissen
marcone at xs4all.nl
Sat Mar 11 07:14:49 UTC 2006
>In theory, bits-per-second are *always* in decimal, not binary--with the
>only exception being "bus transfer rates" (
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitrate#Usage_notes ). So, when talking
>about your 100Mbps ethernet cable or your 54Mbps wireless connection or
>your 56kbps dial-up modem or your 2200kbps video or your max of
>10800kbps stream for DVD's (including audio, video, and other streams),
>you're talking about decimal.
To be more correct you should say 'binary prefixes' and 'SI prefixes',
not 'binary' and 'decimal' (since the latter are just number systems).
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