The four metadata kinds to capture, the EIDR / MovieLabs MEC / Schema.org standards to adopt, the human/provider/AI tagging mix, and the ingest-normalize-enrich-govern pipeline to specify before launch — on a single sheet.
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The handbook · 7 volumes
Fora Soft Video Engineering Handbook
This metadata readiness checklist gives you the four metadata kinds, the EIDR, MEC and Schema.org standards, and the ingest-to-govern pipeline to specify before launch. We wrote a seven-volume handbook on the full OTT stack; start with Volume 2 on ingest, packaging and HLS/DASH, then Volume 3 on players, subtitles and CDN delivery, with Volume 1 covering encoding. Written by Nikolay Sapunov, CEO at Fora Soft.
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