Young Sheldon - S05e13 Libvpx

George blinked. “Is that a new brand of motor oil?”

“No,” Sheldon sighed, pushing up his glasses. “It’s a video codec. Libvpx uses variable bitrate encoding to allocate more data to complex scenes and less to simple ones. Right now, you’re wasting bandwidth on the static background—the burned lasagna, the unpaid electric bill—and not enough on the foreground: the fact that you feel emasculated by Mother’s new church role, and she feels abandoned by your silence.”

Sheldon didn’t say “that’s a non-sequitur.” He just nodded. And for the first time that season, the variable bitrate of the Cooper household stabilized.