Jean-Baptiste Kempf

It could be a screen share content.

It could be video.

It could be animation.

All of these require different coding tools.

So what happens these days is a collection of tools are put in and called AV1 and called AV2, called VVC to allow for different use cases.

So you may be on Zoom and sharing your PowerPoint and then you need to show the audience a video.

That codec needs to start changing its tool set

depending on the content to compress in a different way.

From a philosophical level, I think it's incredible that your home videos, your grandmother's home videos and trillion-dollar corporations effectively are on a level playing field using the same technology stack.

It wouldn't be a surprise, you know, these big companies just have 3,000 line FFmpeg commands.

There are some that use the API, but there are some that just have long command lines.

We wouldn't be here and you wouldn't be here if this required, you know, a traditional television studio setup.

It's tools like FFmpeg that democratize this.

The podcast and streaming revolution, the YouTube revolution was caused.

You know, FFmpeg was a big player in that because it democratized this technology that was once in the 90s, for example, you needed...

equipment that cost hundreds of thousands of dollars to do compression it was the size of a car and now everybody has that at almost an exact level playing field and that's something that's so remarkable it gave voice to a lot of people and we just to clarify we say you you wouldn't be here not the human but the podcast vlc did not have anything to do on a biological level

Well, yes, people do.

This is a question we get a lot in FFmpeg is why don't you do that?

And you can't.

We have thousands of contributors, some of whom aren't even alive anymore.