Bug#884138: ffmpeg: scientific notation used for speed in progress bar

[Thorsten Glaser]

James Cowgill dixit:

>I guess you want to change it to "%5.4gx" or something else? The point
>where we change from normal to scientific notation is fairly arbitrary.

I guess I'd expect to never see scientific notation for
speed/progress indicators (the numbers switch very quickly,
and length is an easy indication of change).


rsync recently changed their formatting to include
thousands separators for their speed and size indicators
(which, of course, broke piping the output into sed,
easy to fix by putting a "| tr -d ," before it).

I'm not sure this would improve the situation here
(to use a custom formatting routine with thousands
separators, instead of printf) or not. I'd say that
that is upstream's call.


bye,
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