What Kieran Kunhya has said about FFV1 and digital video archiving

1 quote · 1 episode · May 6, 2026

Kieran Kunhya, British codec engineer, longtime FFmpeg contributor, founder of Open Broadcast Systems and the person behind the FFmpeg account on X, has been quoted on FFV1 and digital video archiving 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

Kunhya said the archiving community funded the lossless FFV1 codec and GPU encoding in FFmpeg because preserving multimedia heritage in a playable form is a long-term concern.
“They funded the development of the FFV1 codec. So that's a lossless codec”
Lex Fridman Podcast: #496 – FFmpeg: The Incredible Technology Behind Video on the Internet (May 6, 2026) · Listen from 4:06:08

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.

Kieran Kunhya on other topics

FFmpeg · 2 quotes
Video codecs · 2 quotes
x264 · 1 quote
Rust (programming language) · 1 quote
Assembly language and SIMD optimization · 1 quote
Open source maintainer burnout · 1 quote