Knowledge base
Deep-dive courses and long-form architecture guides on WebRTC, LiveKit for AI agents, real-time speech translation, multimodal AI, AI video agents, and the rest of the systems we build. Written by Fora Soft engineers. 250+ projects shipped since 2005.
"The codec you ship in 2026 will outlive your CDN contract. Pick it with that in mind."
This course explains how video is represented, compressed, encoded, and measured for quality — from pixels, color, bitrate, and HDR to H.264, HEVC, AV1, VVC, motion estimation, rate control, and encoder internals.
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Learning courses
Structured knowledge bases that walk through a topic end-to-end. Read in order, jump by chapter, or use the glossary as a reference. Two more courses ship in Q3–Q4 2026.
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Codec landscape through 2030 — AV1, AV2, H.266, H.267, and end-to-end learned compression. Bitrate ladders, encoding pipelines, and the planning frame for codec migrations.
02 · Course
How video delivery actually works — HLS, DASH, LL-HLS, WebRTC, RTMP, SRT, CMAF, adaptive bitrate, CDNs, DRM, and players. A practical streaming course from Fora Soft engineers, from the ingest socket to the viewer's screen.
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Video encoding glossary
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Architecture guides
Each guide is a long-form architecture explainer covering tradeoffs, vendor stack choices, scaling concerns, and what we'd do differently if we built it again.
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Most read"P2P breaks at ~6 participants. Here's the SFU math."
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Start here"Cloud at $0.005 per minute. Self-host at 10K minutes — the math flips fast."
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"Sub-second translation is a budget, not a feature. Here's how to spend it."
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"Vision, voice, reasoning — pick two for under 500 ms. The third costs."
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"The vendor's demo runs on one user. Your product runs on 10K. Plan the gap."
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Latest"Build vs buy is rarely the right question. It's almost always 'where do you draw the seam'."
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