What Jean-Baptiste Kempf has said about AV1
1 quote · 1 episode · May 6, 2026
Jean-Baptiste Kempf, French software engineer, president of VideoLAN and lead developer of VLC media player, has been quoted on AV1 once in 1 episode of Lex Fridman Podcast, most recently on May 6, 2026. Each quote below is verbatim and links to the moment it was said.
In their words
Kempf said roughly 30% of Netflix video and 50% of YouTube video is now delivered in AV1, often decoded in software because few devices have hardware decoders.
“30% of the video from Netflix are now in AV1. 50% of YouTube, right?”
Lex Fridman Podcast: #496 – FFmpeg: The Incredible Technology Behind Video on the Internet (May 6, 2026) · Listen from 2:13:53
Episodes
#496 – FFmpeg: The Incredible Technology Behind Video on the InternetLex Fridman Podcast · May 6, 2026 · 4 h 24 min
Jean-Baptiste Kempf and Kieran Kunhya explain FFmpeg, VLC, video codecs, handwritten assembly, open-source maintainer burnout and the Google security drama with Lex Fridman.
Jean-Baptiste Kempf on other topics
- FFmpeg · 3 quotes
- VLC media player · 3 quotes
- Video patents and patent pools · 1 quote
- Kyber (low-latency streaming SDK) · 1 quote
- Open source maintainer burnout · 1 quote
- Rust (programming language) · 1 quote
- dav1d · 1 quote
- VideoLAN · 1 quote