A small, dependency-free (pure standard-library) Python tool that makes the article's reference architecture runnable. It models an automated QC policy as a set of checks across the three checkpoints (ingest validation, post-encode quality gate, pre-publish check), each tagged with an EBU-style layer (wrapper/bitstream/baseband/x-check/layout), a severity (hard or soft), a comparator, and a threshold. Given a batch of asset results (JSON or CSV: container_valid, decodes_ok, declared_vs_decoded_m
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Fora Soft Video Engineering Handbook
This QC gate evaluator models an automated policy across ingest, post-encode and pre-publish checkpoints, with hard and soft checks and a triage-queue estimate. Our seven-volume handbook covers the video stack; start with Volume 1 for quality metrics, compression artifacts and encoder settings, then Volume 3 for delivery and QoE monitoring. Written by Nikolay Sapunov, CEO at Fora Soft.
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