What Jean-Baptiste Kempf has said about VideoLAN
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 VideoLAN 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 VideoLAN's only effective leverage with large platform companies is public pressure on social media, citing a year-long inability to update VLC on the Android Play Store.
“The only way we got someone to answer was to put a very spicy, as you say, tweet saying that we were going to stop distributing VLC for Android”
Lex Fridman Podcast: #496 – FFmpeg: The Incredible Technology Behind Video on the Internet (May 6, 2026) · Listen from 1:26:23
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
- AV1 · 1 quote
- dav1d · 1 quote