The ghost manifests as a "missing reference frame"—a translucent, pixelated man in a 1990s windbreaker. He keeps stuttering, repeating the last 12 frames of his life.
Then gone.
ALICE: "You're a floating, dependent slice." ghosts s01e05 ffmpeg
PHANTOM: "I was... was... was transcoding a funeral... a funeral... funeral... when the power surged. My soul got written as B-frames without a corresponding P-frame. I'm dependent on future data that no longer exists." The ghost manifests as a "missing reference frame"—a
ffmpeg -i haunted.mkv -fflags +genpts -c copy fixed.mkv over-caffeinated code poet) leans in
WHISPER (V.O.): "...frame rate mismatch... no keyframes... help me synchronize..."
JAX (20s, over-caffeinated code poet) leans in, eyes wide.