What Jean-Baptiste Kempf has said about Kyber (low-latency streaming SDK)
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 Kyber (low-latency streaming SDK) 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 Kyber currently achieves seven milliseconds glass-to-glass latency between machines and is targeting four milliseconds.
“So far, we achieve seven milliseconds from Windows to Windows or Windows to Mac”
Lex Fridman Podcast: #496 – FFmpeg: The Incredible Technology Behind Video on the Internet (May 6, 2026) · Listen from 3:40:21
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
- Open source maintainer burnout · 1 quote
- Rust (programming language) · 1 quote
- AV1 · 1 quote
- dav1d · 1 quote
- VideoLAN · 1 quote