A one-page worksheet to size a low-latency live delivery target before turning it on: pick a latency tier from the product (VOD none / news 5–10 s / sport-betting 2–5 s / interactive sub-second WebRTC), walk the glass-to-glass budget line by line to find where your seconds hide, confirm you are chunking (CMAF) rather than shrinking segments, check the cache, origin-shield, and surge-capacity consequences of the extra request load, and verify both LL-HLS and LL-DASH device coverage — with the one
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The handbook · 7 volumes
Fora Soft Video Engineering Handbook
This low-latency readiness worksheet picks a latency tier, walks the glass-to-glass budget line by line and checks cache, origin-shield and device coverage. We wrote seven volumes covering the whole video stack; start with Volume 2 for CMAF chunking and latency budgets, then Volume 3 for CDNs and WebRTC, with Volume 1 for encoding. Written by Nikolay Sapunov, CEO at Fora Soft.
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