Let’s pretend Sheldon wanted to digitize his Mario gameplay. Here is the FFMpeg command he would use if he time-traveled to 2024:
Okay, I made that up. The show didn’t actually show that command (it’s set in 1990, and FFMpeg wasn’t created until 2000). But the spirit of the episode is pure FFMpeg. young sheldon s02e08 ffmpeg
However, direct URL download might not work as expected due to various reasons like the source not supporting it directly. A more common use is converting between formats. Let’s pretend Sheldon wanted to digitize his Mario
ffmpeg -i "vhs_capture.avi" \ -map 0 \ -c:v libx264 \ -preset medium \ -crf 22 \ -c:a aac \ -b:a 128k \ "young_sheldon_s02e08_8bit.mp4" -c:v libx264 -crf 18 output.mp4
ffmpeg -i <stream_URL> -c:v libx264 -crf 18 output.mp4