Uploaded July 2020 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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This was a fun little project - hunting down an easter egg in the open source code of VLC.
I made this video in 2018.

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CHAPTERS
00:00 - Reproducing the VLC Kill Bill easter egg
00:58 - Why reading source code is useful
01:26 - Searching the VLC source code
02:28 - Finding the easter egg through its image asset
03:05 - How the developers hid the search string
03:40 - Other easter eggs and the KiBps mystery

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