A one-page worksheet to size your own ladder: pick the top rung from content and audience, choose a rung count and spacing, map rungs to your device classes, set codec and rate control, and run the storage/egress sanity check before requesting an encoder quote.
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The handbook · 7 volumes
Fora Soft Video Engineering Handbook
This worksheet sizes your encoding ladder: top rung, rung count and spacing, device mapping, codec and rate control, plus a storage and egress check. Our seven-volume handbook covers the OTT stack; begin with Volume 1 on codecs, rate control and quality metrics, then Volume 3 for ABR ladders and Volume 2 for HLS and DASH packaging. Written by Nikolay Sapunov, CEO at Fora Soft.
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