Keep pulling the thread on Jean-Baptiste Kempf and Kieran Cunha.
The David AV1 decoder is estimated to be running on approximately 3 billion devices.
Approximately 30% of video content streamed by Netflix is now encoded in the AV1 format.
Approximately 50% of video content streamed by YouTube is now encoded in the AV1 format.
Two separate intelligence agencies have requested that a backdoor be placed in the VLC media player.
The VideoLAN project's policy is to shut down its software, including VLC, rather than compromise its integrity with a backdoor.
The open-source XML parsing library LibXML is no longer being maintained.
Two separate intelligence agencies have requested that VideoLAN install a backdoor into VLC, both of which were refused.
Using handwritten SIMD assembly in FFmpeg can result in performance improvements of 10x to 62x compared to equivalent C code.
The maintainer of the XZ compression library granted commit access to an attacker after experiencing burnout from persistent, targeted pressure and demands.
The widely used open-source library LibXML is no longer actively maintained.
The open-source compression utility XZ is maintained by a single person.
FFmpeg is the underlying open-source software system for video and audio processing for platforms including YouTube, Netflix, Chrome, VLC, and Discord.