Jean-Baptiste Kempf is lead developer of VLC and president of VideoLAN. Kieran Kunhya is a longtime FFmpeg contributor, codec engineer, and the person behind the now-infamous FFmpeg account on X.
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EPISODE LINKS:
FFmpeg on X: <a href="https://x.com/FFmpeg">https://x.com/FFmpeg</a>
FFmpeg: <a href="https://ffmpeg.org/">https://ffmpeg.org/</a>
VideoLAN (VLC): <a href="https://www.videolan.org/">https://www.videolan.org/</a>
VideoLAN on X: <a href="https://x.com/videolan">https://x.com/videolan</a>
Jean-Baptiste&#8217;s Website: <a href="https://jbkempf.com/">https://jbkempf.com/</a>
Jean-Baptiste&#8217;s LinkedIn: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jbkempf/">https://www.linkedin.com/in/jbkempf/</a>
Jean-Baptiste&#8217;s GitHub: <a href="https://github.com/jbkempf">https://github.com/jbkempf</a>
Kieran&#8217;s X: <a href="https://x.com/kierank_">https://x.com/kierank_</a>
Kieran&#8217;s LinkedIn: <a href="https://bit.ly/3OORhmC">https://bit.ly/3OORhmC</a>
Kieran&#8217;s GitHub: <a href="https://github.com/kierank">https://github.com/kierank</a>
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OUTLINE:
(00:00) &#8211; Introduction
(03:00) &#8211; Sponsors, Comments, and Reflections
(10:48) &#8211; Weirdest things VLC opens
(15:12) &#8211; How video playback works
(24:33) &#8211; Video codecs and containers
(35:20) &#8211; FFmpeg explained
(56:20) &#8211; Linus Torvalds
(1:00:59) &#8211; Turning down millions to keep VLC ad-free
(1:15:17) &#8211; FFmpeg &#38; Google drama
(1:34:31) &#8211; FFmpeg developers
(1:41:08) &#8211; VLC and FFmpeg
(1:45:42) &#8211; History of FFmpeg
(1:48:59) &#8211; Reverse engineering codecs
(2:02:14) &#8211; FFmpeg testing
(2:06:21) &#8211; Assembly code (handwritten)
(2:30:39) &#8211; Rust programming language
(2:39:55) &#8211; FFmpeg and Libav fork
(2:48:17) &#8211; Open source burnout
(2:56:04) &#8211; x264 and internet video
(3:09:20) &#8211; Video compression basics
(3:16:17) &#8211; CIA and fake VLC
(3:26:52) &#8211; Ultra low latency streaming
(3:44:20) &#8211; AV2 codec and video patents
(3:54:12) &#8211; VLC backdoors
(4:04:27) &#8211; Video archiving
(4:11:04) &#8211; Future of FFmpeg and VLC

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