“Why are you burning your eyes out on that command-line junk?” she asks. “Mom already ripped it for me. Took her two clicks in HandBrake.”
ffprobe -v error -show_entries stream=codec_name,duration -of default=noprint_wrappers=1 young_sheldon_s02e04.mkv Result: The source has variable frame rate (VFR) due to telecine from the Blu-ray’s 1080i source. Sheldon groans. “Television engineers are the true agents of chaos.” young sheldon s02e04 ffmpeg
If you wanted to replicate Sheldon’s final working command for Young Sheldon S02E04 in real life: “Why are you burning your eyes out on
ffmpeg -i young_sheldon_s02e04.mkv -c:v libx264 -preset ultrafast -crf 23 -c:a aac output.mp4 The result: 3.2 GB. Still too large for his tablet’s remaining 12.8 GB of free space (after mandatory backups of his Nobel equations folder). young sheldon s02e04 ffmpeg
He fixes it with: