[youtube-dl] Download speed metric

Benjamin Drung bdrung at ubuntu.com
Sun May 16 11:52:37 BST 2010


Am Samstag, den 15.05.2010, 15:12 -0300 schrieb Romulo Curty Cerqueira:
> Dear Mrs
> 
> First of all, I would like to thank you for this kind software.
> 
> I would also like to give you a comment to get a better usage of it.
> 
> I saw that you write "k/s" for speed metric, but it is not meaningfull
> because k means only "kilo" and it means 1000 times something, as
> bellow:
> 
> Retrieving video data:   0.4% ( 310.00k of 74.95M) at  421.32k/s ETA
> 03:01
> 
> I think it should be better to write "kbps" (kilo bits per second),
> the most used in the market, as bellow:
> 
> Retrieving video data:   0.4% ( 310.00k of 74.95M) at  421.32 kbps ETA
> 03:01

IMO youtube-dl should follow Ubuntu's units policy [1] and use kB/s.

[1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UnitsPolicy

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Benjamin Drung
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