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Lex Fridman

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#496 โ€“ FFmpeg: The Incredible Technology Behind Video on the Internet

We can lower the frame rate.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#496 โ€“ FFmpeg: The Incredible Technology Behind Video on the Internet

We can use different kinds of codecs, as we mentioned, from H.264 to AV1.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#496 โ€“ FFmpeg: The Incredible Technology Behind Video on the Internet

There's ways to tune the trade-off between bitrate and quality, as we've kind of spoken to.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#496 โ€“ FFmpeg: The Incredible Technology Behind Video on the Internet

You know, you could do constant bitrate, you can do constant quality, say, or FCQ, QP.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#496 โ€“ FFmpeg: The Incredible Technology Behind Video on the Internet

You can do the longer or shorter group of pictures, GOP, that we mentioned.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#496 โ€“ FFmpeg: The Incredible Technology Behind Video on the Internet

I mean, all that kind of stuff.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#496 โ€“ FFmpeg: The Incredible Technology Behind Video on the Internet

It's crazy.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#496 โ€“ FFmpeg: The Incredible Technology Behind Video on the Internet

Number of B-frames.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#496 โ€“ FFmpeg: The Incredible Technology Behind Video on the Internet

Yeah, what is crazy is that...

Lex Fridman Podcast
#496 โ€“ FFmpeg: The Incredible Technology Behind Video on the Internet

Yeah, they're wizards.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#496 โ€“ FFmpeg: The Incredible Technology Behind Video on the Internet

Hats off to them.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#496 โ€“ FFmpeg: The Incredible Technology Behind Video on the Internet

YouTube, to deliver, all the streaming sites actually, to deliver at scale.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#496 โ€“ FFmpeg: The Incredible Technology Behind Video on the Internet

And YouTube is really magical because it's not just doing what Netflix does, which is one way, like broadcasting type thing.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#496 โ€“ FFmpeg: The Incredible Technology Behind Video on the Internet

It also has to upload videos from all the places.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#496 โ€“ FFmpeg: The Incredible Technology Behind Video on the Internet

So they're also doing encoding at scale.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#496 โ€“ FFmpeg: The Incredible Technology Behind Video on the Internet

For videos, they're going to be watched by like five people.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#496 โ€“ FFmpeg: The Incredible Technology Behind Video on the Internet

And it still has to deliver them at a moment's notice.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#496 โ€“ FFmpeg: The Incredible Technology Behind Video on the Internet

No delay, nothing.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#496 โ€“ FFmpeg: The Incredible Technology Behind Video on the Internet

Very minimal latency.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#496 โ€“ FFmpeg: The Incredible Technology Behind Video on the Internet

And also serve it in all different resolutions.