Kieran Kunhya

Look at social networks.

Video is everywhere.

It's the most powerful medium there is, right?

And when you see shorts and reels and TikTok, right?

It's amazingly powerful to give.

Video is amazing for that, right?

But the complexity is important.

Yeah, so FFmpeg

VLC, x264, Videoland, everything we do is fully open source.

And for the people who don't understand how open source is, my usual analogy is about a chocolate cheesecake.

Usually, when you want to buy your cheesecake, you go to a bakery, they give you the cheesecake.

The other way of having a cheesecake is have your grandma give you a recipe of how to make that.

When we do open source, we give you the chocolate cake and we give you the recipe to actually remake the same cake, but at the same time tell you how to build the oven and also how you're allowed to modify the recipe and resell it to someone else.

And this is because software is just a very long recipe of small instruction.

Computers are not very clever.

They go very, very fast.

So a normal program has tens of billions of instruction instead of the tens when you have your chocolate recipe.

So why?

a lot of the software industry was about selling software like where you just have like the final cheesecake in open source we make we give you everything and that managed to get a lot of people work together right because then you decide that you're going to make the best program the best recipe for video and you create communities in ffmpeg since the beginning of ffmpeg probably

2,000 to 3,000 people have contributed from the beginning, right?