“I was calculating pi to the 10,000th digit. The HEVC project was a side quest.”

“Seventy-three minutes, actually,” Sheldon said. “And it’s already finished. I began the encode at 4:17 AM.”

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

Sheldon nodded. “I already did. You’re welcome.”

“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.”

Mary blinked. “Honey, we rented Babe from Blockbuster. It’s a DVD.”

George Sr. took a long sip of his beer. “I’ll mark my calendar.”

The Hevc Variable

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Georgie groaned. “So you stole a movie from a store?”