Water and fog together are a worst-case scenario. The codec sees the rippling surface as noise and aggressively discards detail. Claire’s iconic 1940s nurse’s dress, now a sodden rag, loses its folds and becomes a single brown-green blob. Fans watching on lower-resolution monitors have reported that she briefly appears to be wearing a plastic trash bag.
Buy the Blu-ray. Yes, physical media. The H.264 stream on a Blu-ray is typically 20–40 Mbps, compared to streaming’s 3–8 Mbps. That mist? You’ll see every droplet. outlander s02e10 openh264
: The episode highlights the Prince's incompetence and reliance on Jamie's leadership to avoid what could have been a military slaughter. Technical Highlight: OpenH264 and Video Quality Water and fog together are a worst-case scenario
The good news is that OpenH264 is already aging out. Newer codecs like AV1 (royalty-free and vastly more efficient) and H.266 (better at handling motion and fog) are slowly being adopted. Firefox and Chrome have begun prioritizing AV1 decode when hardware support exists. now a sodden rag