And I thought: Finally. A job for ffmpeg.
The crock-pot monster might have been a disaster. The video encoding? Perfect. Next time you watch Young Sheldon and see him wrestling with technology, just remember: there’s a command line for that. And it’s probably ffmpeg . young sheldon s02e19 ffmpeg
There’s a moment in Young Sheldon Season 2, Episode 19 ("A Broken Heart and a Crock Monster") that stops me cold every time. It’s not the emotional fallout of Mary’s new job or the chaos of the crock-pot monster. It’s a throwaway line. And I thought: Finally
That’s exactly what ffmpeg is. It’s not pretty. It has no GUI. It will punish you for a missing colon. But once you learn to speak its language, you realize it’s the most logical tool ever created. The video encoding
Sheldon is trying to document... something. (Honestly, with him, it’s either a scientific anomaly or a minor injustice committed by Missy.) He’s holding a camcorder, frustrated, and mutters something about the file being "too big" and the format being "incompatible with Dr. Sturgis’s Linux partition."