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Kieran Kunhya

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
1922 total appearances

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

FFmpeg is basically the low-level libraries for codec, so compressions and decompression, muxes and demuxes, and filters.

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

The core is this, and then you have several tools which allow you to create a type of pipeline to process any type of video files.

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

And it's used as a library absolutely inside everything from VLC to Chrome to your smart TVs to basically any video that you see online, you usually use FFmpeg.

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

And FFmpeg in it has all those type of tools and sometimes depend on other libraries like x264, libvpx and others, right?

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

So it's really now the de facto tool to process images.

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

Yeah, of course.

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

I'm sure.

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

Because... So most of the people, they're going to take FFmpeg, file in, file out, and specify the format, right?

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

But you can... We've seen...

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

thousands of characters.

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

And we've seen also like people like doing programming generation of common lines to make FFmpeg.

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

There is a ton of people who are using AI to generate common lines for FFmpeg because you have no idea what it is.

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

But you can specify so many filters, right?

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

On common line, right?

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

So FFmpeg is this collection of toolbox for multimedia processing that everyone, everyone uses.

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

And everyone that is watching your videos are also using, right?

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

You're on YouTube.

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

Well, it's FFmpeg on the client side.

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

Well, on the server side, the client side is probably Chrome.

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

Well, you're using FFmpeg also.