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Decoded is a podcast about how video really works — the engineering behind every stream, video call, and clip you watch. Each episode takes one piece of the video pipeline — pixels and color, codecs and compression, quality metrics, and the latest in AI — and explains it clearly, from first principles to what actually ships in production. The series is based on The Fora Soft Video Engineering Handbook and is made by Fora Soft, a software company that has done one thing since 2005: video, real-time communication, and AI systems. 50 in-house engineers, 250+ delivered projects, live streaming with 0.4–0.5-second glass-to-glass latency for 10,000 simultaneous viewers, and solutions used by NBC, CBS, and Red Bull. Whether you're a developer moving into video, a product person who needs to reason about codecs and bitrate, or simply curious how a camera becomes a stream, Decoded turns a dense field into something you can actually follow — one short episode at a time. If you're building a product with video or online calls, come talk to us: https://www.forasoft.com/