What Jean-Baptiste Kempf has said about dav1d

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 dav1d 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 dav1d contains roughly 30,000 lines of C and 240,000 lines of handwritten assembly, more than all of FFmpeg's assembly combined.
“We are talking about 30,000 lines of C, but 240,000 lines of handwritten assembly, right? Handwritten assembly, 240,000 lines”
Lex Fridman Podcast: #496 – FFmpeg: The Incredible Technology Behind Video on the Internet (May 6, 2026) · Listen from 2:12:25

Episodes

#496 – FFmpeg: The Incredible Technology Behind Video on the Internet
Lex 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
AV1 · 1 quote
VideoLAN · 1 quote