Hevc - Young Sheldon S04e14

“I was calculating pi to the 10,000th digit. The HEVC project was a side quest.” The family settled onto the couch—except Sheldon, who insisted on sitting two feet closer to the screen to “evaluate block artifacts.” The movie began. Babe , the talking pig, trotted across the screen in crisp, allegedly superior 10-bit color.

“I borrowed it, returned it, and then stole it. Semantics.” young sheldon s04e14 hevc

“You know,” he said, as the credits rolled, “HEVC was standardized in 2013. It’s 1994 now. That means it will be nineteen years before this family catches up to optimal video efficiency.” “I was calculating pi to the 10,000th digit

“That’s the problem,” Sheldon said. “DVDs use MPEG-2, a codec from 1995. The inefficiency is physically painful to me. So I transferred the film to my external hard drive, applied a HEVC encode at 10-bit depth, and now we can watch it in superior quality without the disc’s inevitable laser rot.” “I borrowed it, returned it, and then stole it

Then the screen went black, save for a blinking cursor that read: ERROR: DECODE BUFFER OVERFLOW.