videolan
/
ffmpeg
mirror of https://git.videolan.org/git/ffmpeg.git
1
Fork 0
Code Releases Activity

doc: avtools-common-opts: Fix terminology concerning metric prefixes 

'k', 'M', and 'G' are SI (unit) prefixes or metric prefixes,
not 'number postfixes'. Also, the statement regarding binary
prefixes ("powers of 2 are used instead of powers of 10")
might be misinterpreted (1 kB = 10^3 B, but 1 KiB != 2^3 B).

Signed-off-by: Diego Biurrun <diego@biurrun.de>
This commit is contained in:
Marcus Stollsteimer 2012-11-19 21:39:20 +01:00 committed by Diego Biurrun
parent f2ce813e37
commit 2bf794b698
1 changed files with 6 additions and 5 deletions
Show Stats Download Patch File Download Diff File Expand all files Collapse all files

11
doc/avtools-common-opts.texi
View File

@ -1,10 +1,11 @@
All the numerical options, if not specified otherwise, accept in input
a string representing a number, which may contain one of the
International System number postfixes, for example 'K', 'M', 'G'.
If 'i' is appended after the postfix, powers of 2 are used instead of
powers of 10. The 'B' postfix multiplies the value for 8, and can be
appended after another postfix or used alone. This allows using for
example 'KB', 'MiB', 'G' and 'B' as postfix.
SI unit prefixes, for example 'K', 'M', 'G'.
If 'i' is appended after the prefix, binary prefixes are used,
which are based on powers of 1024 instead of powers of 1000.
The 'B' postfix multiplies the value by 8, and can be
appended after a unit prefix or used alone. This allows using for
example 'KB', 'MiB', 'G' and 'B' as number postfix.
Options which do not take arguments are boolean options, and set the
corresponding value to true. They can be set to false by prefixing