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Kieran Kunhya

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

And whether it's going to like build train or cars or rockets or something like that,

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

I believe people who believe in themselves and have a vision can have a huge impact for humanity.

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

And when you start doing the physics, it's a nightmare, right?

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

Yeah.

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

And there is so many more, right?

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

Lately, the David project that we might talk about is the last project from VideoLan.

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

It's everywhere, right?

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

And we have a LibSpatialAudio lately that we announced.

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

CheckSM.

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

CheckSM.

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

Check ISM, which is like an insane project, but amazing.

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

And x264 is one of those video land projects.

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

And my opinion, for example, is that x264 was the most amazing encoder ever designed.

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

And this helped the adoption of FFmpeg.

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

A lot of people and large companies went through FFmpeg because they wanted to use x264.

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

And x264 increased the popularity on FFmpeg.

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

But also VLC had its popularity because it's played so many files that were done by FFmpeg, right?

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

So it's many projects that are interweaved and work together.

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

And to give you an idea, right, when I compiled VLC for Windows, I compiled around 16 million lines of code, right?

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

One million of those are inside the VLC repository, and FFmpeg in total is probably two, around two, right?