Later that night, Alex looked at the source code one last time. The libvpx library sat in its directory, unassuming lines of C code. People thought of codecs as tools, hammers and wrenches for digital media.
dd if=/dev/urandom of=/tmp/test.vp8 bs=1M count=1 time vpxdec /tmp/test.vp8 --i420 -o /dev/null vera s05 libvpx
Here’s an interesting, technically oriented guide for looking into (a popular Z-Wave home automation controller) and its use of libvpx (the VP8/VP9 video codec library). Later that night, Alex looked at the source