Young Sheldon S02e04 Ffmpeg -

Sheldon stares at the DVD. Then at his 4 lines of meticulously tuned ffmpeg commands. Then back at Missy.

The episode finishes encoding in 8 minutes. File size: 480 MB. Sync is perfect. Quality is fine. young sheldon s02e04 ffmpeg

ffprobe -v error -show_entries stream=codec_name,duration -of default=noprint_wrappers=1 young_sheldon_s02e04.mkv Result: The source has variable frame rate (VFR) due to telecine from the Blu-ray’s 1080i source. Sheldon groans. “Television engineers are the true agents of chaos.” Sheldon stares at the DVD

ffmpeg -i young_sheldon_s02e04.mkv -c:v libx264 -preset ultrafast -crf 23 -c:a aac output.mp4 The result: 3.2 GB. Still too large for his tablet’s remaining 12.8 GB of free space (after mandatory backups of his Nobel equations folder). The episode finishes encoding in 8 minutes

He fixes it with:

“Cool. Anyway, I’m watching it in the car. You can sit next to the diaper bag.”