No computers were harmed in the making of this episode. One USB TV tuner, however, was thrown into the trash.
He takes a bite of Meemaw’s pie. ffmpeg error log, finally empty, glows on the screen. young sheldon s04e18 ffmpeg
“The audio is recorded at 48 kHz, but the video stream has variable frame rate drift due to my cheap USB tuner. I need to rewrap the container, resample the audio, and force constant frame rate — all in one pass without re-encoding the video, because that would take 14 hours.” No computers were harmed in the making of this episode
(defeated) “But Professor Proton will have moved on to string theory by then. I’ll have missed the neutrino segment forever.” ffmpeg error log, finally empty, glows on the screen
“Technically, I’m transcoding. And I need ffmpeg to compress it without losing the scene where Professor Proton explains neutrino oscillation. But every time I run the command—” (mimes explosion with hands) “—the audio desyncs by 1.2 seconds.”