Jean-Baptiste Kempf

it would be difficult for you to incorporate that code because there would be someone in the UK and someone in Germany and someone in the US as part of video and who'd be able to see that.

It would be extremely difficult.

One of the coolest communities in open source multimedia, mainly led by someone called Dave Rice, I'll give him a shout out, I think from City University of New York, is the archiving community.

They've done so much stuff.

They value open source, one, because yes, they lack budgets, but two, they see the fact that archiving video is important for the world.

But being able to play that is a big problem.

Famously in the UK, there was something called the New Doomsday Book, and they archived lots of stuff on BBC microcomputers.

Within 10 to 15 years, no one had the right software to play that.

I think it was 20 years or something like that.

And someone had to go and reverse engineer this.

And that was like 20 years.

Imagine that in a thousand years.

I think one of the great things about FFmpeg is it's written in C. C is the closest to mathematics you're probably going to get, the closest to logic.

Yes, we have languages that exist that haven't changed too much.

We have mathematical notation that exists.

It will be like Latin.

C will be like Latin.

It will be a thing that you learn...

from the past, but it will still be usable in certain contexts.

So the archiving community are really great practically.