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#496 – FFmpeg: The Incredible Technology Behind Video on the Internet
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Weirdest things VLC opens
At 13:12 · chapter starts 10:48
VLC's legendary resilience: VHS capture cards, DVD Audio, Star Wars game codecs, competition files with per-frame resolution changes, and the infamous cone logo origin. [1] — Jean-Baptiste Kempf "25% of the website traffic that comes to our main website is 'Kun Player,' right? So many people don't know VLC, they know the Kun Player." 13:12
It is estimated that over 90% of online and offline video processing workflows involve FFmpeg in some form.
VLC has been downloaded at least 6.5 billion times, with the real number likely even higher due to counting difficulties.
