you're the lead developer behind the legendary VLC player. Kieran , amongst many other things, you're lead developer behind the legendary FFmpeg handle on Twitter. And both of you have spicy opinions I would say.So today we wanna talk about FFmpeg and VLC.
- Basically saying, "Hell no." - Like, if we had to compromise our software, we would shut it down. This is clear. - Any tweets Kieran , you regret? - Tweets I regret?
- Don't regret anything. No, it's because regrets are attacks on your mind. - The following is a conversation all about FFmpeg and VLC with Jean-Baptiste Kempf and Kieran Kunhya. FFmpeg is an open source software system that is the invisible backbone behind YouTube, Netflix, Chrome, VLC, Discord, and basically every platform that
And about the two great engineers and human beings I'm talking to in this episode, Jean-Baptiste is the president of VideoLAN and is a key figure behind VLC and FFmpeg. Kieran is a longtime codec engineer, FFmpeg contributor, and the man behind the now infamous FFmpeg account on Twitter/X that I recommend everybody follow for the memes and for the unapologetic celebration of open source and great low-level software engineering.
philosophy. They were-- that was a-- that doesn't necessarily follow, but so I'm making the case in the book for something that the contemporary philosopher Kieran Setiya has described as activities, things that you do not because of what they're leading up to or amounting to, that are not defined by some kind of endpoint.
Now another study-- or this is more of a theoretical piece, a meta analysis with a theoretical framing that comes from the same lab of Kalina Christoff, with the first author now Kieran Fox, is to comparatively analyze mind-wandering, or spontaneous cognition of the sort that we were just looking at, in relationship to dreaming.
to contact me, ask questions, give feedback, and so on. And now, dear friends, here's Jean-Baptiste Kempf and Kieran Kunhya. So the legend goes VLC can open everything. What's the weirdest thing that you know that it can open?
degrade, we need to match the human perception, and this is why it's so difficult. And then we need to use the maximum power, mathematical power, very complex technologies. We move to the frequency domain, as Kieran said. We do a ton of dequantizing, in order to get the best compression, but it still looks good. - You're trying to compress in order to maximize the highest quality thing for human perception.
democratized this technology that was once in the nineties, for example, you needed equipment that cost hundreds of thousands of dollars to do compression. It was the size of a car, local network," and they create the VideoLAN project, VideoLAN. And one of them is called Christophe Massiot, that is a good friend of both Kieran and me, and they start the project. It's not