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FFmpeg: The Incredible Technology Behind Video on the Internet | Lex Fridman Podcast #496

FFmpeg: The Incredible Technology Behind Video on the Internet | Lex Fridman Podcast #496

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MediaRecommended

Cinema Paradiso

Giuseppe Tornatore (inferred)

“One of my favorite films”
“One of my favorite films, Cinema Paradiso, I know the engineer who created the Blu-ray, and he showed me the comparisons of x264 versus others”— Kieran Kunhya
MediaRecommended

Planet Earth

BBC (inferred)

“that I absolutely love”
“There is another sample which is a sample that is Planet Earth's killer sample that I absolutely love.”— Jean-Baptiste Kempf
BookRecommendedISBN verified

The C Programming Language (K&R)

Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie (inferred)

“Learn C... it's from the K&R book. Learn C”
“You can learn C, and let's be honest, it's from, it's from the K&R book. Learn C.”— Kieran Kunhya

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Fringe

J.J. Abrams (inferred)

“I think the big one was Chris Henderson from Warner Brothers. He did the whole Fringe box set with that.”— Kieran Kunhya