Bitrates confusion

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cookiemonster

The problem I am having is that when i right click a
video, and click properties/summary/advanced, I see the
data rate of the video as ***kbps, which sometimes means
kiloBITS, and sometimes it means kiloBYTES- Windows can't
seem to make up its mind- up until about 1400
kilobits/second, it'll measure the video in bits/second,
but somewhere higher up in video quality, it starts
measuring 1600 kbits/s as 200 kilobytes/sec- my main
problem is the fact that the abbreviation is unchanged-
from kbps to kbps, I have to watch the video and make my
own judgment as to what unit of measurement is being used.
 
cookiemonster said:
The problem I am having is that when i right click a
video, and click properties/summary/advanced, I see the
data rate of the video as ***kbps, which sometimes means
kiloBITS, and sometimes it means kiloBYTES- Windows can't
seem to make up its mind- up until about 1400
kilobits/second, it'll measure the video in bits/second,
but somewhere higher up in video quality, it starts
measuring 1600 kbits/s as 200 kilobytes/sec- my main
problem is the fact that the abbreviation is unchanged-
from kbps to kbps, I have to watch the video and make my
own judgment as to what unit of measurement is being used.
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Yes XP does this. How does this impact anything you are doing?

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