Guest
Jean-Baptiste Kempf
President, VideoLAN
Real Alpha has cut 2 moments of Jean-Baptiste Kempf (President, VideoLAN) talking, from an interview on Lex Fridman Podcast published May 6, 2026.
What Jean-Baptiste Kempf said
Why hand-written assembly beats compilers by 10x to 50x
“it's not even close right it's not even close right it's not like five percent ten percent slower it's multiple times slower”
Jean-Baptiste Kempf2:10:18 Why Kempf turned down tens of millions to keep VLC ad-free
“it's the fact that i believe that you need to win money ethically there is the right way of doing that”
Jean-Baptiste Kempf1:06:45
The episode
Lex Fridman PodcastFFmpeg: The Incredible Technology Behind Video on the Internet | Lex Fridman Podcast #496
Jean-Baptiste Kempf & Kieran Kunhya
2:03:52of 4:18:22 · May 6
