And OpenH264, for all its efficiency, has never written a scene as painful as a woman choosing which husband to delete from memory to keep the stream alive.
The episode’s structure mirrors a codec’s . An I-frame (intra-coded frame) is a complete, standalone image—a memory so sharp it hurts. In S02E01, that I-frame is the stone circle at Craigh na Dun, the blood on Jamie’s hands, Frank’s desperate embrace. Everything else? P-frames and B-frames—predictive, dependent, slightly corrupt. outlander s02e01 openh264