Rick And Morty S03e08 Ffmpeg <LIMITED>

Rick encoded The Dark Knight on veryslow because he hates Jerry and loves efficiency. You should too. Final note: No, FFmpeg does not actually appear in S03E08. But after reading this, you’ll swear it was there all along.

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. rick and morty s03e08 ffmpeg

So what does a genius do when he feels powerless? He optimizes. Rick encoded The Dark Knight on veryslow because

“RICK! Summer is going to fight a giant monster made of teeth!” Rick (burps): “Yeah, well, my encode is at 84%. Do you know how hard it is to find a good H.265 preset that preserves grain structure, Morty? burp You go fight your teeth monster. I’m doing God’s work.” But after reading this, you’ll swear it was

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.