Young Sheldon S03e08 Openh264 File

Can it make a frozen chimichanga not taste like cardboard?

(softly, to himself) First pass — entropy coding. Then loop filtering. Then… dinner.

He’s turning our DVD player into a computer. young sheldon s03e08 openh264

Actually, Mother — what’s for dinner?

(resigned) Then I’ll need a few more minutes on the compression algorithm. Some things require lossy optimization. Can it make a frozen chimichanga not taste like cardboard

— The Cooper living room, evening. SHELDON (9) sits on the floor with a disassembled DVD player. A single green circuit board rests on a towel. His laptop is open beside him, running a Linux terminal.

OpenH264. It’s a video codec. Cisco open-sourced it. It compresses video more efficiently than the fossil currently inside this player. In theory, I could fit three episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation on a single-layer disc without perceptible loss. Then… dinner

(pause) No. That’s thermodynamics. Completely unrelated.