dav1d
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dav1d has come up in 1 episode across 1 podcast in TMT, including Lex Fridman Podcast. 1 person has made recorded remarks about it.
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Jean-Baptiste KempfFrench software engineer, president of VideoLAN and lead developer of VLC media player
Kempf said dav1d contains roughly 30,000 lines of C and 240,000 lines of handwritten assembly, more than all of FFmpeg's assembly combined.
“We are talking about 30,000 lines of C, but 240,000 lines of handwritten assembly, right? Handwritten assembly, 240,000 lines”
Lex Fridman Podcast: #496 – FFmpeg: The Incredible Technology Behind Video on the Internet (May 6, 2026) · Listen from 2:12:25
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- Lex Fridman Podcast · 1 episode
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#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.