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6 May 2026 Lex Fridman Podcast #496 – FFmpeg: The Incredible Technology Behind Video on the Internet
“It sucks that that’s part of reality, ’cause all the people that love VLC, all the people that love FFmpeg, like me, you know, I, I legitimately hundred- probably thousands of times in my life had a smile on my face because FFmpeg made me happy, period.”
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- Lex Fridman
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- 6 May 2026
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…My mother freaked out, right? We had to go to see the police and so on. And now, like, I’m going to say that I’m quite happy that this happened at that time. It forged me a lot, right? I am… I can see, I can take a lot of hate on me. I’m okay with it, right? It sucks that that’s part of reality, ’cause all the people that love VLC, all the people that love FFmpeg, like me, you know, I, I legitimately hundred- probably thousands of times in my life had a smile on my face because FFmpeg made me happy, period. And how many times did I get a chance to say that? Zero. Until I realized there’s a Twitter account, and every once in a while I’m, like, messaging it. One of the things I like on the Reddit meme about me, which I don’t like this meme for a lot of reasons, but… And someone says, “Oh, JB is on Reddit,” which I am, right? And I say, and say hello, right? And then I got so many people who say, “Oh, thank you for VLC.” And, like, I take pictures, and then I share that to the Signal, to IRC. Yes, we use IRC on different-…
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