Lex Fridman · Future of holograms, brain signal playback, smell, and touch in multimedia software | Lex Fridman

1. 1. FFmpeg and VLC will expand to handle emerging multimedia forms beyond traditional audio and video.
2. 2. Brain-computer interfaces like Neuralink could lead to multimedia consuming neural data, requiring new brain codecs.
3. 3. The definition of multimedia is expanding to encompass all human senses, including smell and touch.
4. 4. VLC and FFmpeg's small core teams function as maintainers, focusing on architecture to integrate community contributions.
5. 5. FFmpeg and VLC push for open standardization in new multimedia domains, contrasting with closed systems like Dolby.