Rick And Morty S03e08 Ffmpeg 2021 -

So what does a genius do when he feels powerless? He optimizes.

The next time you watch S03E08, don’t just watch Summer become a warlord. Watch the background. Listen for the fan noise. And remember: Wubba lubba dub dub, but don’t forget the -pix_fmt yuv420p flag or your Apple TV won’t play it. rick and morty s03e08 ffmpeg

“RICK! Summer is going to fight a giant monster made of teeth!” Rick (burps): “Yeah, well, my encode is at 84%. Do you know how hard it is to find a good H.265 preset that preserves grain structure, Morty? burp You go fight your teeth monster. I’m doing God’s work.” So what does a genius do when he feels powerless

Rick’s solution isn’t to buy more storage. That’s a Jerry move. Rick’s solution is to re-encode reality itself. For the uninitiated, FFmpeg is the Swiss Army chainsaw of multimedia processing. It is the ultimate tool for converting, streaming, and destroying video files. It is powerful, ugly, and unforgiving—exactly like Rick. Watch the background

Let’s talk about why that specific command is the most Rick thing in the entire episode. By S03E08, Rick is broken. His marriage to Unity is a scar. He’s living in Jerry’s shadow (in a literal sense, in the garage). The man who can manipulate the entire galactic government is reduced to doing mundane tech support for a family that doesn't respect him.

While Summer is learning to stab people with bottle caps and Morty is getting his arm stuck in a Mad Max trap, Rick is staring at a 4K Blu-ray rip of The Dark Knight (his guilty pleasure). The file is 65GB. His Plex server is lagging. Beth is complaining about buffering.

Why veryslow ? Because Rick has no patience for anything else, but he has infinite patience for doing something perfectly once. He’d rather let his computer run for 14 hours than accept a file that is 1% larger than necessary. It is the most petty, brilliant, narcissistic flag in existence. While the family fights in the post-apocalyptic wasteland, there’s a 3-second cut back to the garage. Rick is drinking from a flask, watching a terminal scroll.