Jean-Baptiste Kempf

‘Vetinari’ is the biggest security release in VLC’s history: more than 130 security fixes, FFmpeg jumping from 4.4 to 8.1.2, 49 updated third-party libraries and a new RSA-4096 update key, with the sup…

adds rsync over TLS, optional geographical sorting, and mirror-down reasons in the CLI, and deletes 300,000 lines of vendored code on its way to modern Go. The project now lives under the Videolabs organization.

is a major release with a major ABI break, new swscale architecture, more Vulkan work, Dolby Vision Profile 7 handling, and a few fun surprises.

VLC is now available on Vega OS, Amazon’s new operating system for Fire TV devices. This is the first VLC 4.0 in production: the first shipping VLC built on libvlc 4 and our new QML interface technology.

continues the Sonic series with more RISC-V and ARM optimizations, better threading, and improved portability, including OS/2 support.

3-hour conversation with Lex Fridman and Kieran Kunhya on FFmpeg, VLC, codecs, and the global open-source video stack.

Annual FOSDEM update on the state of FFmpeg, VLC, x264, dav1d, libplacebo, libspatialaudio communities — plus the latest from Kyber.

‘Vetinari’ is a maintenance and security release: subtitle and caption fixes, a batch of Windows work, and a serious round of security hardening, supported by the Sovereign Tech Fund.

libspatialaudio 0.4.0 is a major release of VideoLAN’s spatial audio renderer, covering HOA, object rendering, ADM-style concepts and IAMF-oriented workflows, with real-time-friendly binaural and loudspeaker outputs.

libdvdread 7, libdvdnav 7 and libdvdcss 1.5 bring full DVD-Audio parsing, navigation and CPXM decryption, along with build-system modernization and improved platform stability.

brings improvements across all major architectures, major stack and code size reductions, and completes the core optimization work of the AV1 decoder.

Jean-Baptiste Kempf reflects on receiving the European SFS Award 2025 at SFSCON in Bolzano, celebrating the collective success of the VideoLAN and VLC communities.

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Update on the Bluray open source stack: libbluray 1.4.0 and libudfread 1.2.0 It has been more than ten years since I last wrote about the Blu-ray libraries (So I bought a Blu-ray drive…, Disc libraries releases, Blu-Ray…

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Mirrorbits 0.6: A new Hope Since the middle of last year, I have taken over the maintainership of Mirrorbits, the open-source Geo-basedredirector, that we use to distribute the binaries of VLC, and that is now used by n…

Interview about Kyber and achieving 8 ms glass-to-glass latency for cloud gaming, robotics and remote control applications.

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FFmpeg 7.1 FFmpeg 7.1 has been released today: a major release with numerous features that nevertheless maintains API compatibility with 7.0. It has a full native VVC decoder, a new MV-HEVC decoder, a new LC-EVC decoder…

FFmpeg 7.0 FFmpeg 7.0 was released a few days ago: a major release with numerous new features and a new major version of the APIs. It features a multi-threaded CLI, a first version of our native VVC decoder, support for…