What did you think of the libvpx twist? Did you catch the easter egg FFmpeg command on Wesley’s laptop screen? Drop your thoughts (and your best codec puns) in the comments below!
VP9 encoding is CPU‑intensive. If you have a modern multi‑core CPU with AVX2/AVX‑512, you’ll see up to 2× speed‑up by enabling the -row-mt (row‑based multithreading) flag.
ffmpeg -i rookie_s04e12_master.mkv -i rookie_s04e12.mkv \ -lavfi "[0:v]setpts=PTS-STARTPTS[enc];[1:v]setpts=PTS-STARTPTS[ref];[enc][ref]psnr=stats_file=psnr.log;[enc][ref]ssim=stats_file=ssim.log" \ -f null - the rookie s04e12 libvpx
At the end of the episode, Nolan sits with the new rookie (who is a former Twitch streamer) and says:
The episode opens with Lucy Chen going undercover at a tech startup (classic). But the twist? A blackmailer has hacked the LAPD’s body-cam servers and is threatening to release heavily pixelated, “deep-faked” footage that frames Sergeant Grey for a crime he didn’t commit. What did you think of the libvpx twist
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While Harper and Nolan chase down a decoy suspect, Wesley (in his best legal-hacker mode) calls in a favor from a disgraced video engineer. VP9 encoding is CPU‑intensive
PSNR average: 47.9 dB SSIM average: 0.997