He did something unprecedented. He walked into the living room, sat down between them, and said: “Libvpx has a setting called ‘lag-in-frames.’ It allows the encoder to look ahead before compressing. Father, you need to look ahead and see that Mother isn’t trying to change you. She’s afraid. Mother, you need to look ahead and see that he’s not rejecting you. He’s exhausted.”

“That looks terrible,” George said.

The Libvpx Variable Bitrate Gambit