Rick And Morty S02e09: Ffmpeg

ffmpeg -i input.mp4 output.avi And suddenly, you’ve lost three hours of your life. The frame rate is wrong. The audio is out of sync. The colors look like a radioactive sunset. You have entered the Purge.

But for those of us who work with digital video, this episode contains a single, throwaway line that hits harder than a Plumbus to the head. When a dying alien hands Morty a crystal and says it contains "the secrets of the universe," Rick glances at it and scoffs: "Oh, that's just a batch of FFmpeg commands. That's not the secret to anything." If you’ve ever stared into the abyss of a terminal window, wrestling with pixel formats, codecs, and PTS timestamps, you know: Rick is wrong. FFmpeg is the secret to everything. rick and morty s02e09 ffmpeg

Example: The "Morty panic attack" visual effect. ffmpeg -i input