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·         Open Multimedia Conference ‘Video Dev Days 2024’ Held at Kwangwoon University

The Open Source Multimedia Conference, Video Dev Days 2024 (VDD24), organized by VideoLAN, was successfully held at Kwangwoon University from Saturday, November 2, to Sunday, November 3, 2024.

VideoLAN is a nonprofit organization that develops open-source software such as VLC, FFmpeg, x264, and dav1d. Among them, VLC is a video player with over 5.6 billion downloads. FFmpeg is software used for handling multimedia and is widely regarded as an industry standard, utilized by numerous companies.

Video Dev Days, held annually, is an event that brings together a diverse range of developers, including contributors to open-source projects like VideoLAN, Kodi, libplacebo, and mpv, as well as employees from companies such as Meta, Vimeo, Google, Samsung, YouTube, and Igalia. The event featured presentation and workshop sessions. During the presentation sessions, valuable information on various technologies and development trends, including RISC-V, the AV1 codec, and optimization techniques, was shared. The workshop sessions featured lively discussions on the development directions of open-source software, followed by small group discussions.

During Video Dev Days, which was attended by approximately 100 participants, active communication and interaction took place among attendees. This event provided a valuable platform for fostering interaction within the open-source community and contributing to technological advancement.

This year's Video Dev Days, held at Kwangwoon University, was the first to take place in South Korea and the second in Asia, following the 2019 event in Japan. The event was made possible through the efforts of VideoLAN, Moon Sung-jun (School of Software, Enrolled in 2020), and Professor Alaric Hamacher from Kwangwoon University. The successful hosting of Video Dev Days 2024 provided participants with a valuable and enriching experience.