Jean-Baptiste Kempf
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Jean-Baptiste Kempf is a prominent French software engineer best known as the lead developer of the VLC media player and the president of the VideoLAN non-profit organization. He is a key figure in the open-source community, contributing significantly to video technologies like FFmpeg and various multimedia codecs.
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What Jean-Baptiste Kempf has said on podcasts
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Video and audio compression can reduce data by roughly 100 times.
“the compression on video and audio is 100 times”
Open the episode · #496 – FFmpeg: The Incredible Technology Behind Video on the InternetListen at 19:45
Reducing color resolution relative to brightness can halve video size without compression.
“we scale down the resolution of the color compared to the brightness. And most of the time and just this, without compression, it divides the size by two.”
Open the episode · #496 – FFmpeg: The Incredible Technology Behind Video on the InternetListen at 21:57
Each codec generation achieves about 30% lower size at equivalent quality.
“each generation of the codec is like 30% less for the same quality”
Open the episode · #496 – FFmpeg: The Incredible Technology Behind Video on the InternetListen at 22:37
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