Menu
Sign In Search Podcasts Charts People & Topics Add Podcast API Blog Pricing

Kieran Kunhya

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
1922 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

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

The logo of VLC is so iconic, right?

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

Like, we are a team with a small number of people, and the icon is known everywhere.

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

I go to middle of nowhere in India or in China, people know the cone, right?

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

Yeah.

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

25% of the website traffic that comes to our main website is ConePlayer, right?

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

So many people don't know VLC, right?

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

They know the ConePlayer.

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

That's the thing that Google for is ConePlayer.

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

Yeah, they go on Google and they put ConePlayer and they download VLC, right?

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

So that's iconic.

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

And once we tried to change it as a joke, right?

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

We said it was going to be a type of caterpillar game.

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

construction and we said that during april 1st and we had around 10 000 emails saying no don't change the logo and so on right so it's so iconic right it's so distinctive right if you want to do a video player you're going to put a play button on the tv right and that's a youtube youtube logo right it's an original this one is orange right very bright uh and and it's

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

Well, we really hope so, right?

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

But there is also so many memes where people say, well, I'm sure I can put a pancake inside my DVD drive and VLC will play it.

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

Can they?

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

No, we tried.

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

It doesn't.

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

But we actually have a video of us trying that.

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

Didn't work.