Young Sheldon S05e12 H264 Today

SHELDON: Mother, this is efficiency. The current MPEG-2 codec wastes 47% more storage space than h264. If we want to preserve every detail of Meemaw blowing out her candles — including the way the smoke rises asymmetrically due to the ceiling fan’s airflow — we need better compression.

SHELDON: (without looking up) Already calculated the trajectory. The kernels landed with a standard deviation of 1.2 centimeters. Not worth re-encoding. young sheldon s05e12 h264

The Compression Conundrum