This film or show by BBC came up once on Lex Fridman in the episodes we index. That mention was a genuine on-air recommendation, not just a passing reference. The people who brought it up: Jean-Baptiste Kempf. Every occurrence below links to the episode page and to the exact second it was said on YouTube.
Every time it came up
FFmpeg: The Incredible Technology Behind Video on the Internet | Lex Fridman Podcast #496
“There is another sample which is a sample that is Planet Earth's killer sample that I absolutely love.”— Jean-Baptiste Kempf
The guest here is Jean-Baptiste Kempf and Kieran Kunhya: Jean-Baptiste Kempf is president of VideoLAN and a key figure behind VLC and FFmpeg, and has founded several open-source companies including his new ultra-low-latency startup Kyber. Kieran Kunhya is a longtime codec engineer, FFmpeg contributor, founder of Open Broadcast Systems, and runs the well-known FFmpeg account on Twitter/X. FFmpeg and VLC core developers explain the invisible open-source machinery behind nearly all internet video, codecs, assembly, and the people who maintain it.
