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Kieran Kunhya

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#496 โ€“ FFmpeg: The Incredible Technology Behind Video on the Internet

You know, there is a ton of people who are using VLC to record VHS videos, right?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#496 โ€“ FFmpeg: The Incredible Technology Behind Video on the Internet

Like it's just like you plug it with a capture card and you can basically record VHS video.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#496 โ€“ FFmpeg: The Incredible Technology Behind Video on the Internet

Well, how does that work?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#496 โ€“ FFmpeg: The Incredible Technology Behind Video on the Internet

Basically, it's, you know, those type of capture card where you can put a Peritel in or RGA and you put that and actually VLC can play those type of cards.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#496 โ€“ FFmpeg: The Incredible Technology Behind Video on the Internet

And there is a module which allows to control directly those VCR camcorders.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#496 โ€“ FFmpeg: The Incredible Technology Behind Video on the Internet

We support DVD audios lately, right?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#496 โ€“ FFmpeg: The Incredible Technology Behind Video on the Internet

We spent the summer working on DVD audio support.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#496 โ€“ FFmpeg: The Incredible Technology Behind Video on the Internet

And like there is no one's making any DVD audio support.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#496 โ€“ FFmpeg: The Incredible Technology Behind Video on the Internet

There is a custom encryption schemes.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#496 โ€“ FFmpeg: The Incredible Technology Behind Video on the Internet

Oh, yeah.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#496 โ€“ FFmpeg: The Incredible Technology Behind Video on the Internet

And there is, of course, all the weird codecs, game codecs supported by FFmpeg.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#496 โ€“ FFmpeg: The Incredible Technology Behind Video on the Internet

And then, funnily, at one Videoland conference, we made a competition to make the weirdest and most horrible file ever and see if VLC could play it.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#496 โ€“ FFmpeg: The Incredible Technology Behind Video on the Internet

What did it end up being?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#496 โ€“ FFmpeg: The Incredible Technology Behind Video on the Internet

What's the file?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#496 โ€“ FFmpeg: The Incredible Technology Behind Video on the Internet

It was an MKV file made by Derek, which each of the frame was changing resolution, aspect ratio, rotation, and it was like... Did it work?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#496 โ€“ FFmpeg: The Incredible Technology Behind Video on the Internet

Yes.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#496 โ€“ FFmpeg: The Incredible Technology Behind Video on the Internet

And there was another one where the whole video was actually animated subtitles, right?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#496 โ€“ FFmpeg: The Incredible Technology Behind Video on the Internet

SSA, right?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#496 โ€“ FFmpeg: The Incredible Technology Behind Video on the Internet

So each frame was a black frame, but on top of that, there was a subtitle that was animated for each frame.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#496 โ€“ FFmpeg: The Incredible Technology Behind Video on the Internet

Yeah, by far, right?

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