The highly anticipated second season of Starz's hit series Outlander premiered with a thrilling episode, "The Land of Promise". The episode, which marks the beginning of Claire Randall's (Caitriona Balfe) journey through the ages, picks up where season one left off, with Claire and her husband, Jamie Fraser (Sam Heughan), settling into their new life in the 18th century.
Claire’s body in 1948 is a transport stream. It carries packets from two timelines. The checksums fail. The jitter buffer empties. And the only thing OpenH264 can do is drop frames to keep up. outlander s02e01 openh264
Frank Randall, in 1948, is a B-frame. He exists only in relation to two other images: the husband Claire left (Jamie) and the husband she has returned to (Frank). He is interpolated. When Claire recoils from his touch in their hotel room, the codec stutters. The prediction fails. OpenH264 would mark that as a macroblock error —a chunk of visual data that cannot be reconciled with the reference frame. The highly anticipated second season of Starz's hit