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Kieran Kunhya

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1922 total appearances

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#496 – FFmpeg: The Incredible Technology Behind Video on the Internet

which also play video games.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#496 – FFmpeg: The Incredible Technology Behind Video on the Internet

And the university tells them that basically, oh, I'm sorry, we cannot help you because you understand the campus is not ours.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#496 – FFmpeg: The Incredible Technology Behind Video on the Internet

You manage it.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#496 – FFmpeg: The Incredible Technology Behind Video on the Internet

So,

Lex Fridman Podcast
#496 – FFmpeg: The Incredible Technology Behind Video on the Internet

Do something.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#496 – FFmpeg: The Incredible Technology Behind Video on the Internet

And you should see some basically partners of the university and basically go away.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#496 – FFmpeg: The Incredible Technology Behind Video on the Internet

And they go and they actually go and see the CIO of Bouygues, which is a large French company and who's doing some TVs in France.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#496 – FFmpeg: The Incredible Technology Behind Video on the Internet

And he says, well, you know what?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#496 – FFmpeg: The Incredible Technology Behind Video on the Internet

The future of video is satellite.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#496 – FFmpeg: The Incredible Technology Behind Video on the Internet

Well, today we know it's not, but at least it was a good idea in 1995, the first of satellite dish.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#496 – FFmpeg: The Incredible Technology Behind Video on the Internet

And he says that...

Lex Fridman Podcast
#496 – FFmpeg: The Incredible Technology Behind Video on the Internet

Instead of having like one satellite dish and a big decoder for each of the students, which are 1,500, what about you build, like you put an enormous dish and only one decoder and you send the video directly on the network.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#496 – FFmpeg: The Incredible Technology Behind Video on the Internet

And that required a very fast network.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#496 – FFmpeg: The Incredible Technology Behind Video on the Internet

Today, it's obvious.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#496 – FFmpeg: The Incredible Technology Behind Video on the Internet

But at the time, it was like the first to do video streaming.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#496 – FFmpeg: The Incredible Technology Behind Video on the Internet

So they built this project, which was called Network 2000.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#496 – FFmpeg: The Incredible Technology Behind Video on the Internet

Of course, we're in the 90s, right?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#496 – FFmpeg: The Incredible Technology Behind Video on the Internet

Everything is futuristic.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#496 – FFmpeg: The Incredible Technology Behind Video on the Internet

It's called 2000.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#496 – FFmpeg: The Incredible Technology Behind Video on the Internet

And so they do the network 2000 project.