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.
Every layer of building video products — encoding, streaming, audio, AI, OTT and more. Written by Fora Soft engineers.
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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. One more course ship in Q3 2026.
01 · Course
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.
03 · Course
How to actually wire AI into a video product — computer vision, speech, multimodal models, generative video, real-time inference, and agents — plus the AI-assisted tools video engineers use to build faster.
04 · Course
How audio actually works inside a video product — sample rate and loudness, the AAC and Opus codecs, LUFS targets per platform, the WebRTC audio pipeline, lip-sync, and Dolby Atmos. A practical course from Fora Soft engineers, from the microphone to the viewer’s ears.
05 · Course
How a modern surveillance system actually works — IP cameras, ONVIF and RTSP, VMS and NVR, edge and cloud video analytics, storage and retention, and privacy compliance. A practical course from Fora Soft engineers, from the camera sensor to the operator's screen.
06 · Course
How a clinical video product is built and shipped — HIPAA compliance, BAAs, WebRTC clinical video, EHR and FHIR integration, e-prescribing, and clinical AI. A practical course from Fora Soft engineers, from the compliance boundary to go-live.
07 · Course
How a streaming platform is actually built, protected, monetized, and operated — the ingest-to-analytics pipeline, the encoding ladder, CDN cost engineering, multi-DRM, SVOD/AVOD/TVOD/FAST monetization, the device matrix, and QoE. A practical, vendor-neutral OTT and VOD engineering course from Fora Soft engineers, from the first architecture decision to launch.
08 · Course
How a learning-video product is actually built, tracked, integrated, made interactive, made live, made intelligent, measured, and shipped — SCORM and xAPI tracking, LTI and cmi5 integration, interactive video, virtual classrooms, AI tutors, proctoring, and learning analytics. A practical, vendor-neutral e-learning and corporate-training video course from Fora Soft engineers, from the first architecture decision to launch.
Reference
Engineer-written, multi-chapter, free. Get notified when the next one drops.
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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Specialist software house for video, real-time and AI products. Founded 2005. 50 in-house engineers.
