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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

But then when you combine like an event that is, for example, a sport event, that is probably going through satellite or somewhere else and goes to a central place for encoding.

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

And then you need to encode this older resolution in real time.

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

You don't have time for QA.

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

You need to push that to CDNs.

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

You need to probably DRM or protection.

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

You need to have that over a ton of different devices.

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

Then, yes, it is complex.

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

And also like you're in the web browser or in very much different devices that you use for television, where you had like a defined set of box or cable box that you know where you control end to end.

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

So it's a challenge, but it's less, I think the networking part, while you agree to have 10, 20 seconds of latency, I don't think this is very difficult.

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

Sure.

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

If you start from where we used to be, right?

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

You used to use FFmpeg to encode files, right?

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

And then we used FFmpeg and VLC to encode in streaming services, right?

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

And then you need to go lower and lower.

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

And the question was, where up to where can we go?

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

And this question is very important because there are many use cases where you need to be fast.

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

And it's when you have

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

feedback interaction, right?

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

We are not just listening to something.

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

You're actually controlling it, right?