“The problem is compression,” Sheldon whispered to the ceiling. “MPEG-2 is obsolete. H.264 is the standard, but it’s patent-encumbered, proprietary, and frankly, morally offensive to a young libertarian like myself.”
He opened a browser window. His dial-up tone screamed—a screech of digital handshaking. He searched: “open source h.264 encoder.” young sheldon s02e05 openh264
He double-clicked. On screen, his own face appeared—a version of him from the future, acting out a scene about a research study and some pastries. “The problem is compression,” Sheldon whispered to the
Sheldon panicked. “A B-frame misprediction!” he yelped, waking George Sr. in the next room. His dial-up tone screamed—a screech of digital handshaking
Video compression works by removing what the eye doesn’t notice. It deletes the redundant, the unnecessary. It finds the patterns and throws away the noise.
He dove back into the code. He adjusted the rate control, tweaked the motion estimation, and re-encoded. The second attempt worked. Feynman finished his sentence.
