Video patents and patent pools
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Video patents and patent pools 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 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
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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.