Jean-Baptiste Kempf

They, again, limited funds.

They funded the development of the FFV1 codec.

So that's a lossless codec.

So the archiving community is really scared about the act of compression losing things.

And they have a fair point in this.

If they compress too hard, it could change the...

view of the material.

There could be something slightly different here and there.

So they're really concerned about things need to be not just compressed well, but lossless and be fast.

And so they worked with FFmpeg to develop a whole new codec designed for fast software-based encoding.

They're really concerned about resilience.

So if they're storing on tapes or other hard disks, I lose some bits, I need to recover quickly.

I can't lose a whole GOP because I've lost a bit, something like that.

So they're a really great bunch of people.

They funded GPU encoding in FFmpeg to make FFv1 encode faster.

And it's really about preserving the world's multimedia heritage in a way that's usable.

And there's a lot of great teams and a lot of archival groups across the world who've chosen FFmpeg and FFv1 as their archiving solution.

And they can really provide us also super specialist advice.

They can explain, ah, in the 1950s, colorimetry was done like this on this certain type of tape.

And so there is this special case that you need to handle and you'll never get this anywhere else.