VideoLAN, a project and a non-profit organization.

VideoLAN Developer Days 2025

The Open Multimedia Conference!

31st October - 2nd November, 2025, London

VDD 2025 London

About

The VideoLAN non-profit organization is excited to invite you to the upcoming multimedia open-source event in London!

In this edition, participants from the VideoLAN and open-source multimedia communities will gather in London, UK to discuss and collaborate on advancing the future of open-source multimedia.

This technical conference will focus on in-depth multimedia topics, including codecs and their implementations such as x264 and dav1d, as well as frameworks like FFmpeg, and projects like VideoLAN, VLC, Kodi, libplacebo, mpv and related projects.

This event is specifically geared towards the technical aspects of multimedia, emphasizing low-level components like codecs, their implementations, frameworks, playback libraries, and various innovative projects within the multimedia domain.

When ?

October 31st - November 2nd, 2025

Where ?

London, United Kingdom

For ?

Anyone who cares about open source multimedia technologies and development.

From ?

VideoLAN. But you are very welcome to co-sponsor the event.

Registration


Register for free at VDD 25 Registration Form

Schedule


09:30

Community Bonding Day

Will be announced later.

19:00

Evening drinks

On Friday from 19h00 people are welcome to come and share a few good drinks, with all attendees.

Location: Greater London.

09:00

Registration

09:30 - 09:50

Jean-Baptiste Kempf

Opening Remarks

09:50 - 10:00

Laura Toni

Welcome to UCL

10:00 - 10:45

Niklas Haas

libswscale reimagined

10:45 - 11:10

Break

11:10 - 11:30

Julio Barba and ⁨Gianni Rosato⁩

SVT-AV1-PSY: Origins, Features, and Future

11:30 - 11:50

Yuning Liang

Enabling Intelligent Media Playback on RISC-V - Running VLC With Whisper STT and Qwen T2T on a 40-TOPS RISC-V Laptops

11:50 - 12:10

12:10 - 12:40

12:40 - 14:00

Lunch

14:00 - 15:00

Room 1
Room 2
VLC media player
State of Affairs of AV2 Codec Ecosystem
AOMedia and all things with Open-Codecs

16:00 - 18:00

Room 1
Room 2
VLC media player
FFmpeg

19:00 - 21:00

Community Dinner

10:00 - 10:30

Martin Störsjo

LLVM-MingW updates

10:30 - 10:45

Sam Richards

Why VFX Cares About Codecs: ASWF’s Push for Quality and Interoperability

10:45 - 10:55

Julien Zouein

Re-using AV1 for SfM

11:10 - 11:25

Break

11:25 - 11:35

Mikhail Mironov

AMD AMF and/or Streaming SDK

11:35 - 11:45

Niklas Haas

One Checkasm to rule them all

11:45 - 11:55

11:55 - 12:10

12:20 - 13:00

Lunch Break

13:00 - 15:30

Room 1
Room 2
VideoLAN association meeting
Unconferencing and hacking

15:30 - 18:00

Room 1
Room 2
Unconferencing and hacking
Unconferencing and hacking

Sponsors


Access


Hotels

If you have been sponsored, your will be accommodated in the Holiday Inn London - Regent's Park, Carburton St, W1W 5EE


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Beer Event

BrewDog Seven Dials, 142 Shaftesbury Ave, London WC2H 8HJ


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Community Dinner

The Marquis Cornwallis, 31 Marchmont Street, London, Greater London, WC1N 1AP


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Code of Conduct

This community activity is running under the VideoLAN Code of Conduct. We expect all attendees to respect our Shared Values.

Contact

The VideoLAN Dev Days are organized by the board members of the VideoLAN non-profit organization, Jean-Baptiste Kempf, Denis Charmet, Felix Paul Khüne and Konstantin Pavlov. You can reach us at board@videolan.org.

Local Organizer

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