Ghosts S02e03 Ffmpeg Info

Let me explain. I’m a backend engineer. I have three monitors. My terminal is always open. And last night, while settling in to watch Ghosts (the excellent CBS sitcom, Season 2, Episode 3: "The Woodstone's Got Talent"), my muscle memory betrayed me.

I opened my laptop to SSH into a server, typed ffmpeg , and suddenly my TV show looked very different. ghosts s02e03 ffmpeg

Has anyone else accidentally transcoded their relaxation time? Or is it just me and the ghost in my GPU? P.S. If anyone has a good preset for compressing sitcoms without making the cast look like they’re melting, my DMs are open. Let me explain

💀💀💀💀 (An unwatchable, desynced, artifact-ridden nightmare that made my CPU fan scream like a dying banshee) My terminal is always open

Turns out, I had forgotten the -strict unofficial flag. Also, I was trying to re-encode a video that was already broken. The real haunting was the error message: