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Kieran Kunhya

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

It's not our job, but

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

We're here for everyone to make robots cool.

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

So AV1 is this codec that is done by the Alliance for Open Media, right?

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

Where there is Google, Netflix, Amazon, Apple, Videoland, where we try to make a royalty-free codec.

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

very good codec, right?

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

And now it's being deployed.

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

But actually, the codec was finished in 2018.

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

But a codec takes years to be used in wide scenarios, right?

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

So AV2 is the next generation of this codec.

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

It's 30% better, right?

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

So if you keep the same quality, you get 30% bandwidth reduction compared to AV1.

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

We are going to do a David 2, right?

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

That I called DeVid, because De is 2 in French.

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

Ah, well done.

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

And you have to know that David is an actual, what we call a recursive acronym, right?

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

Because it means D, David, is an AV1 decoder, right?

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

And so DAV2.

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

It's going to be spelled with a 2.

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

It's going to be DAV2D.

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

Sorry, I don't know how you pronounce that.