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Kieran Kunhya

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1922 total appearances

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Podcast Appearances

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

I don't have a point of contact at Microsoft, right?

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

Well, I'm sure any other software, Adobe, Spotify has a point of contact.

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

I don't have that, right?

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

So raising awareness works.

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

It's sometimes very spicy, a lot of drama.

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

X and Twitter are okay for that, but it's efficient.

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

And for example, like Team Sweeney, Carmack, and a few others, like very high level people have raised also the awareness on our X accounts, and that helped a lot also.

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

In VLC, one of the oldest contributors is called Felix.

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

He's the one doing everything on Mac and iOS.

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

He's starting working on VLC.

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

He was 16.

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

We had a guy called Edward Wong, who used to be a Google Summer of Code student who stayed...

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

for three years around video LAN, he was 14, right?

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

And part of Google Summer of Code and Google Code-In, which were programs where basically we have students or high school, we wrote a ton of assembly for x264 and for VLC and for FFmpeg, right?

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

So everyone can contribute.

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

And to be honest, right, like even at Google, Google is

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

one entity, but so many different people, right?

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

And there is a ton of Google engineers we work with all the time.

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

And even like Google from YouTube to Chrome to Chrome Media to the rest of Google, those are very different type of entities.

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

But what we do is...