Young Sheldon S05e12 - H264 ~upd~
When Sheldon discovers that the family’s new camcorder records in an inefficient format, he spends the weekend trying to re-encode home videos into h264 — much to Mary’s frustration, as she just wants to save Meemaw’s birthday party footage before the cake melts.
SHELDON: (without looking up) Already calculated the trajectory. The kernels landed with a standard deviation of 1.2 centimeters. Not worth re-encoding. young sheldon s05e12 h264
SHELDON: You will. In mathematically superior quality. When Sheldon discovers that the family’s new camcorder
SHELDON: Mother, this is efficiency. The current MPEG-2 codec wastes 47% more storage space than h264. If we want to preserve every detail of Meemaw blowing out her candles — including the way the smoke rises asymmetrically due to the ceiling fan’s airflow — we need better compression. Not worth re-encoding
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