Loren Merritt
x264 developer who wrote much of its assembly and the x86inc abstraction layer
Loren Merritt (x264 developer who wrote much of its assembly and the x86inc abstraction layer) is discussed on podcasts in TMT.
Discussed in
#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.