Kieran Kunhya

That means that in order to decode this B-frame, you need to wait for the next frame that is dependent, buffer that, decode that one, so that you can decode the B-frame, right?

So the way you decode the frame, the decoding order, is not the same as the display order, right?

That means the encoder needs to be very clever and decide that, well, you know, I'm going to depend on things like in the future.

So this is mind-blowing.

a ton of people's job is to optimize those parameters, right?

A ton of people that you see at YouTube, at Netflix, at Meta and so on, they're not writing codecs.

They're just like finding the right framework

parameters for the file they have for the format they have right because like something that is for a movie or something that is user generated content from your phone or a screen recording or something that you're going to video edit you don't want the same things and there are thousands of people whose job is just to optimize all that

Well, actually, it's funny because like Google Video, which was something they did before they acquired YouTube, was actually using the VLC plugin so that you could run VLC inside the web browser using the ActivX plugin.

And so it worked in Internet Explorer and you were actually running VLC inside your browser.

Which is funny because today we have the opposite where we have VLC WebAssembly, where we compile all VLC and FFmpeg to decode, to run VLC inside the JavaScript virtual machine with WebAssembly.

So this was a surprise, right?

Because at some point, Wikileaks mentioned some documents.

There were a few ones with something related to Blu-rays and VLC.

But the most interesting one was the CIA Vault 7, which, if I understand correctly, was the CIA had a custom version of VLC where they had a specific plugin.

Yeah, exactly.

We had to write a press release on that.

Somebody can trick you to download in a fake website or targeted advertisement.

That was a targeted advertisement to watch a specific file.

You need to watch...