The Middle Ground (and the Middle Out)
A portal opens. A hoodie-wearing figure from the future tosses a USB stick onto the coffee table. On it: sheldon_lives.mkv (original: 45 GB) and a single text file.
In 1991, Sheldon Cooper had a VCR. In 2024, he would have written a 12-page manifesto on the elegance of ffmpeg -i input.vob -map 0 -c copy output.mkv . The world is not ready.