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x264 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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Kieran KunhyaBritish codec engineer, longtime FFmpeg contributor, founder of Open Broadcast Systems and the person behind the FFmpeg account on X
Kunhya said x264's breakthrough was rejecting PSNR-driven optimization in favour of psychovisual rate distortion and adaptive quantization.
“Two big things, psychovisual rate distortion. So using block energy, trying to compensate for human perception when making decisions”
Lex Fridman Podcast: #496 – FFmpeg: The Incredible Technology Behind Video on the Internet (May 6, 2026) · Listen from 2:56:25
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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.