Then Trevor, of all people, has the solution. "Wait. I used to do this with my dad's TiVo. You don't uninstall the codec. You install a different codec. A worse one. A proprietary, bloated, terrible one. You fight glitch with glitch."
Thor grunts. "Machine still fear pain. I hit it later. For fun."
Worse: the ghosts start lagging.
"Well," Isaac sighs, adjusting his waistcoat. "That was the most harrowing experience since the winter of '78. And I had gangrene."
Hetty, from the corner, finally speaks. She smooths her gown. "I must say, being compressed was dreadful. But the look on the bearded one's face when he became a square ? Worth every penny we didn't pay." ghosts s01e03 openh264
"No. No, no, no," she mutters.
Executive Producer Joe Port & Joe Wiseman Then Trevor, of all people, has the solution
Sam realizes with horror: the OpenH264 codec has somehow interfaced with the ghostly frequency of the manor. It’s not compressing video. It’s compressing them . Their afterlives are being rendered in a low-bandwidth, patent-free format.