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

Lex talks with VLC lead developer Jean-Baptiste Kempf and FFmpeg contributor Kieran Kunhya about how video on the internet actually works. They cover codecs, containers, and playback, plus the history of FFmpeg and its fork into Libav. The conversation also gets into reverse engineering codecs, handwritten assembly, video compression, patents, archiving, and open source burnout.