What Jean-Baptiste Kempf has said about Video patents and patent pools

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 Video patents and patent pools 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 HEVC licensing became unmanageable, with multiple patent pools and uncapped fees potentially costing large streamers hundreds of millions of dollars per year, which motivated the creation of AV1.
“for YouTube or Netflix, we could talk about hundreds of millions of dollars of licensing for patents per year”
Lex Fridman Podcast: #496 – FFmpeg: The Incredible Technology Behind Video on the Internet (May 6, 2026) · Listen from 3:52:09

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
Kyber (low-latency streaming SDK) · 1 quote
Open source maintainer burnout · 1 quote
Rust (programming language) · 1 quote
AV1 · 1 quote
dav1d · 1 quote
VideoLAN · 1 quote