-ss = start time, -t = duration, -c copy = no re-encoding (fast)

Missy stared at the scrolling text. It looked like The Matrix, but boring. "Can it make me a tape of Dallas so I can watch it on the VCR in the living room?"

If you are running low on storage space, converting the episode to H.265 (HEVC) can reduce file size by up to 50% while maintaining the visual fidelity of the 1980s-inspired cinematography.

If you have a digital copy of the episode and want to extract specific scenes, these common FFmpeg commands will help you process the video without losing quality. 1. Trimming the Caltech Cafeteria Scene

Perhaps you want to save the audio of Sheldon and George’s heartfelt moments or the ambient sounds of the Caltech campus. You can extract the audio as an MP3:

On the screen, lines of green text cascaded down the black background.

Sheldon looked at the screen. The progress bar was at 45%. He thought of Paige—effortless, brilliant, chaotic Paige. He thought of the order of FFmpeg. The binary certainty of ones and zeros.