Community Blogs & Forums
Browse 28 curated community blogs & forums resources for video development on Awesome Video.
Resources
- AVForumsLong-running AV hardware and encoding community forum with active technical subforums.
- About Frame Rates or Why 29.97?I recently remembered this popular post from my old blog. Since that blog no longer exists, I thought I would repost it here. Since I wrote…
- Bertolami BlogIndependent engineer's personal blog covering graphics/codec engineering, including neural image compression experiments.
- Breaking Eggs And Making Omelettes — Codec Reverse Engineering ArchiveMultimedia Mike's large archive of posts on reverse-engineering and reimplementing proprietary codecs and container formats.
- Building a Live Streaming Platform: Twitch's Real-time Video InfrastructureTechnical writeup on Twitch's ABR quality-transition tradeoffs compared to Netflix's approach.
- Cardinal Peak Blog: Streaming Media Video Encoding FormatsEmbedded/video engineering consultancy blog covering codec and format trade-offs from an engineering angle.
- Codec Wiki (wiki.x266.mov)Community-maintained wiki documenting modern encoders and codecs (AV1, VVC, x265, uvg266, SVT-AV1) with practical settings, metrics guidanc…
- Doom9 – New and Alternative Video CodecsDoom9 subforum dedicated to deep technical discussion of new/alternative codecs (SVT-AV1, x265, VVC).
- EME, CDM, AES, CENC, and Keys — Understanding DRM Building BlocksOTTVerse explainer (Mile-High Video blog-award winner) tying together the core DRM protocol/technology building blocks: EME, CDM, AES, CENC…
- FFmpeg 7.0: A Question of Threads (Jean-Baptiste Kempf)VLC founder's analysis of FFmpeg 7.0's multi-threaded CLI refactor and what it does and doesn't change for transcoding throughput.
- First Release of dav1d (v0.1.0 "Gazelle")Jean-Baptiste Kempf's release notes for dav1d's first version, covering performance goals and roadmap.
- Hybrid Live Streaming (Thijs Lowette)Independent streaming engineer's substack post on transitioning between HLS/DASH and low-latency/WebRTC delivery approaches.
- Introducing dav1d: a new AV1 decoderJean-Baptiste Kempf (VideoLAN president) explains the motivation for building dav1d as a faster, smaller AV1 decoder than libaom.
- Kostya's Boring Codec WorldLong-running blog by Kostya Shishkov with reverse-engineering deep dives on obscure and legacy video codecs, bitstream formats and decoder…
- Kostya's Boring Codec World — FFhistory: Early Reverse EngineersActive codec reverse-engineering blog documenting the history of FFmpeg's early codec implementations and obscure format internals.
- Live Streaming Architecture: Ingest, Transcoding, and Delivery at ScaleIndependent technical deep dive into segment chunking, manifest generation, ABR client polling logic, and manifest-as-single-point-of-failu…
- OTT Content DeliveryOverview article on OTT content delivery architecture and strategies. Covers video distribution fundamentals.
- OTTVerse NewsletterWeekly newsletter rounding up streaming-industry technical developments plus guest long-form articles on encoding and delivery.
- Roku Engineering BlogRoku's engineering blog covering device OS, playback pipeline and streaming platform engineering work.
- Ronald S. Bultje — Random thoughtsPersonal blog by ex-Google VP9 lead dev, dav1d/Eve encoder co-creator, Two Orioles founder. Deep VP9/AV1 codec internals writeups.
- Tech @ WBD — Warner Bros Discovery Engineering BlogWarner Bros Discovery's engineering blog covering streaming, video, and product tech posts from internal engineers.
- The Broadcast Knowledge — Codecs Talk ArchiveCurated daily index of broadcast and streaming talks, webinars and papers, filterable by topic tags such as codecs and VMAF.
- The Multimedia RenaissanceGianni Rosato retrospective on community AV1 encoder forks continuing psychovisual tuning work after SVT-AV1-PSY wound down.
- The State of the Video Codec Market 2025Streaming Media editorial analyzing AV1 adoption trends versus VVC's slower uptake and AVC license-fee restructuring ahead of 2026.