[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Improve docs for put_bits_count()

Michael Niedermayer michaelni
Sat Apr 11 13:25:48 CEST 2009


On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 11:07:47AM +0200, Stefano Sabatini wrote:
> On date Saturday 2009-04-11 09:49:06 +0100, M?ns Rullg?rd encoded:
> > Stefano Sabatini <stefano.sabatini-lala at poste.it> writes:
> > 
> > > Hi, as in subject.
> > >
> > > The sentence:
> > > "Returns the number of bits output."
> > >
> > > is ambiguous in various ways, I think the alternative proposed is more
> > > clear, or maybe just:
> > > "Returns the number of output bits."
> > 
> > That's even worse.  Try "returns the total number of bits written" or
> > similar.
> 
> Much better, thanks.

ok

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