One-page reference: the ONVIF events service (pull vs push), the event topic tree, the scene-description metadata fields, Profile M's mandatory-vs-optional split, and the four integration traps (metadata archive, NTP drift, class-taxonomy mapping, event storms) that break analytics pipelines.
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The handbook · 7 volumes
Fora Soft Video Engineering Handbook
This ONVIF events and metadata cheat sheet covers pull versus push events, the topic tree, scene-description fields, Profile M and four traps such as NTP drift and event storms. Our seven-volume handbook covers the video stack; start with Volume 6 on detection, tracking and computer vision outputs, then Volume 7 on real-time pipelines, with Volume 1 for encoding. Written by Nikolay Sapunov, CEO at Fora Soft.
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