My local community center has a child watch room where you can pay $6/child for an up to 2 hour block. You must stay in the building. So on Saturday mornings, my wife and I drop the kids off at the child watch room and hit up the gym for a workout. We help keep each other motivated, and we get 2 hours where our kids are stream of consciousness word vomiting at us. Wins all around.
That’s part of what made it sound good at first. It sounded like a unique opportunity with a “legitimate” company, and I was too young and inexperienced to really understand the implications of it, especially when coming from someone I had known for over a decade and really trusted.
It was Stream Energy/Ignite Inc. The energy markets in many US states are open to suppliers other than the utility companies. Ignite/Stream offered bad utility rates with pyramid scheme marketing tactics and eventually were sued. Complaint here
Got convinced by someone I very much trusted to join an MLM as a 19 or 20 year old. After my parents learned about it, they were able to talk some sense into me, and I realized I was part of a pyramid scheme. I got out and basically broke even, which was honestly the best possible outcome of that whole scenario. It unfortunately degraded my relationship with the person who convinced me to join, and I never really could fully trust them after that.
Here’s a guide on using ffmpeg, but the end result may not yield greatly improved video quality. The short version is, a smart TV does it on the fly with basically the same results.