Openh264 | The Bay S03e05

The openh264 codec doesn't know what is important. It treats a human face the same as a brick wall—just macroblocks to be predicted. In Episode 5, as Townsend spirals (her divorce finalization, the missing USB stick), the show argues that surveillance is not memory . Memory is lossy. But codecs like openh264 are lossy with apathy .

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In the final scene of E05, when the camera pulls back to reveal Townsend staring into her laptop’s webcam (which, notably, uses openh264 natively), the compression artifacts on her reflection aren't a glitch. The openh264 codec doesn't know what is important

By using openh264 for the core dramatic reveals rather than just the B-roll, The Bay asks a terrifying question: as Townsend spirals (her divorce finalization