The core maintainer communities for VLC and FFmpeg are tiny: 5 people for VLC, 10-15 for FFmpeg.

“The core community of VLC is five people. The core community of FFmpeg is ten to fifteen, and we are the ones who are going to maintain your code.”

Kyber (VideoLAN low-latency streaming product): achieves 7 ms glass-to-glass latency using a single QUIC/UDP socket multiplexing audio, video, and control streams with clock-drift correction, targeting robotic AI training pipelines.

“Far we achieve seven milliseconds from a Windows to Windows or Windows to Mac.”

VLC is a top-10 Windows application yet VideoLAN has no Microsoft point of contact and is excluded from ISV programs, illustrating how large platforms ignore critical open source dependencies.

“VLC, right, is probably one of the top 10 software used on Windows. I am not part of Microsoft ISV programs, right? I don't have a point of contact at Microsoft, right?”

Intelligence agencies asked VideoLAN to put a backdoor in VLC, two separate agencies made the request.

“The intelligence agencies tried to, like, say, "Can you put a backdoor in VLC?" - Yes. Two of them.”

Only 1% of open source contributors to projects like FFmpeg and VLC stay long-term.

“One percent chance that someone comes and stays. One percent.”

Over 80% of video-processing pipelines using FFmpeg are dependent on at least one VideoLAN project.

“I would put a finger in the air and say 80-plus percent of those pipelines are dependent on a VideoLAN project.”