[mythtv-users] Playback issues with myth frontend over a wireless network

[Michael T. Dean]

On 12/15/2007 04:45 PM, Brion Swanson wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-12-15 at 15:19 -0500, Charles H. Chapman wrote:
>   
>> No, of course not.  Almost no one refers to the data rate on a serial 
>> link in terms of bytes/sec rather than bits/sec.  I assumed you were 
>> referring to bits/sec, despite using the proper abbreviation.
> I know the industry standard, but quite frankly I've always found it
> easier to think in terms of MB (or MiB if you prefer) rather than Mb (or
> again, Mib) for transfer rates.  I've seen other posts where MiB is the
> preferred units under discussion as well, hence the reason I labeled
> them correctly.
>   

Though, really, for transfer rates, Mb/s is standard--i.e. 1,000,000
bits/sec.  The use of power-of-two "binary" prefixes (or the use of
"standard" prefixes to indicate a power-of-two value) would be very unusual.

> Yes, the official HDTV transfer rate for broadcast must not exceed 19.6
> Mbps

Meaning 19,600,000 bits/sec.  Same should apply for bitrates of
audio/video, etc.

Mike