Young Sheldon S03e08 Openh264 Page

Open what?

OpenH264. It’s a video codec. Cisco open-sourced it. It compresses video more efficiently than the fossil currently inside this player. In theory, I could fit three episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation on a single-layer disc without perceptible loss.

I’m optimizing it. OpenH264 uses motion compensation and integer DCT transforms. It’s beautiful mathematics. young sheldon s03e08 openh264

(pause) No. That’s thermodynamics. Completely unrelated.

You don’t appreciate the engineering. OpenH264 is used by Zoom, WebRTC, Facebook. It’s everywhere. And I’m installing it here, in this humble player, for free. Open what

It doesn’t work, Mother. Not optimally. The DVD decoder is using MPEG-2, which is the technological equivalent of a horse and buggy. I’m replacing the firmware with OpenH264.

(softly, to himself) First pass — entropy coding. Then loop filtering. Then… dinner. Cisco open-sourced it

He’s turning our DVD player into a computer.