Rick And Morty S03e08 Ffmpeg |link| Review

The command? ffmpeg -i input.mkv -c:v libx265 -crf 18 -preset veryslow output.mkv .

While Summer is learning to stab people with bottle caps and Morty is getting his arm stuck in a Mad Max trap, Rick is staring at a 4K Blu-ray rip of The Dark Knight (his guilty pleasure). The file is 65GB. His Plex server is lagging. Beth is complaining about buffering. rick and morty s03e08 ffmpeg

Let’s talk about why that specific command is the most Rick thing in the entire episode. By S03E08, Rick is broken. His marriage to Unity is a scar. He’s living in Jerry’s shadow (in a literal sense, in the garage). The man who can manipulate the entire galactic government is reduced to doing mundane tech support for a family that doesn't respect him. The command

"Rickmancing the Stone" (S03E08) is often remembered for two things: the post-divorce chaos of Rick and Jerry living together, and the brutal, Mad Max-esque post-apocalyptic fantasy world Summer gets lost in. The file is 65GB

Why veryslow ? Because Rick has no patience for anything else, but he has infinite patience for doing something perfectly once. He’d rather let his computer run for 14 hours than accept a file that is 1% larger than necessary. It is the most petty, brilliant, narcissistic flag in existence. While the family fights in the post-apocalyptic wasteland, there’s a 3-second cut back to the garage. Rick is drinking from a flask, watching a terminal scroll.

Rick’s solution isn’t to buy more storage. That’s a Jerry move. Rick’s solution is to re-encode reality itself. For the uninitiated, FFmpeg is the Swiss Army chainsaw of multimedia processing. It is the ultimate tool for converting, streaming, and destroying video files. It is powerful, ugly, and unforgiving—exactly like Rick.

Here is the command Rick used: