Kieran Kunhya

For a long time, anime was very badly encoded because there was a ton of bending, right?

And you see those issues, and there was a ton of things.

So x264 is like, and today it's still the reference to any encoder, new encoder, AV1, AV2, VVC, HVC, everyone compares to x264.

And x264 is yet another example of open source project.

It was started by Laurent Emard when he was at the Ecole Centrale Paris where VLC was born.

And then you got a generation of people like Laurent, like Jason, like Mance, like... Henrik.

Henrik.

Anton.

And this is where the assembly...

thing that we use now on FFmpeg, David and so on was born right.

So exclusive for is like amazing project with people who were really all over the world.

And I think most of them never met each other.

Especially at the time, like, at the time, it was like, a lot of anime content doesn't exist commercially, right?

We are before Crunchyroll, right?

So what happens is usually people who love anime, who take some things...

some DVDs in Japan and rip them because there is no commercial offering.

And some of the people who are what we call fan subbers are basically translating themselves to make subtitles, right?

And at that time, you download completely illegally.

It was the only way to do that, right?

And so all of that was handcrafted and it fits the open source community, right?