01–02
Domain
Video, broadcast and production; networking and transport.
The engineering spine
A cited, load-on-demand knowledge base.
CueSeal's research runs on a modular corpus covering the overlap between audiovisual-over-IP engineering and applied AI — the part most learning resources treat as two separate fields with two separate vocabularies. It is written to be loaded a module at a time, by a person or by a model, and everything non-trivial is cited to a publisher.
Released under CC BY 4.0 · not yet published openly
§01 · Modules
Thirteen modules, one router.
Module 00 is the always-on core: identity, principles, conventions, citation policy, and a router that decides which of the rest to pull for a given task. The other twelve are loaded on demand so working context stays lean.
00 · Master Brain
Identity, principles, modes, conventions, citation policy, pedagogy, router.
01 · Video & Camera Engineering
Color/HDR, chroma, bit depth, codecs, frame rates and timecode, sensors, ANC/metadata.
02 · IP Networking for Media
Multicast/IGMP, QoS/DSCP, RTP/RTCP/SDP, FEC, ST 2022-7, fabric design.
03 · Timing & Synchronization
PTP (IEEE 1588), ST 2059, grandmasters, boundary and transparent clocks, BMCA.
04 · ST 2110 & NMOS
The 2110 suite, ST 2022-7/6, AES67, NMOS IS-04/05/…/12, TR-1001-1, IPMX.
05 · NDI & Transports
NDI in depth, plus SRT, RIST, JPEG XS, WebRTC, HLS/DASH, and how to choose.
06 · Software Engineering for Media
Secure code and services around ffmpeg/NDI/control; golden-vector testing.
07 · AI/ML for Video & Media
Vision and audio AI, QoE/VMAF, encoding, learned coding, provenance, inference and MLOps.
08 · AI Systems & Agentic Media Ops
LLM assistance and gated automation for operating media infrastructure.
09 · Security & Threat Modeling
Plane segmentation, control- and timing-plane security, ML attack surface, incident response.
10 · Calculations, Labs & Validation
Bitrate, storage, latency and inference math; lab template; acceptance and observability.
11 · Artifact Templates
Design doc, lab, runbook, threat model, ADR, tool spec, ML model card, checklists.
12 · Source Authority Index
Which authoritative document backs which module; coverage gaps; version flags.
§02 · Glossaries
Six vocabularies, kept apart on purpose.
Broadcast and software use the same words for different things — “frame”, “stream”, “buffer”, “reference”. Each glossary owns one sense and cedes the others to its counterpart rather than duplicating them.
03–04
Engineering
AI/ML engineering; software engineering and DevOps.
05–06
CueSeal
The operating vocabulary (cue-then-seal, holdover, the three planes) and the engineering glossary.
§03 · Worked appendices
Where the method meets a real build.
Each appendix takes a concrete system through the module rigor — threat model, evals, acceptance criteria, artifacts — rather than describing it in the abstract.
Appendix A
Naming Enforcer
A worked spec: deterministic rules, golden vectors, and the failure modes a naming layer has to survive.
Appendix B
Civic Engine
A human-directed studio and civic-video pipeline: shared threat model, safety evals distinct from accuracy, and a two-stage anti-hallucination binder.
Appendix C
Newsroom Verification Desk
Provenance and verification workflow for a working newsroom, with the human gates drawn explicitly.
Appendix D
SCTE Cue Provenance
A worked example carrying cue meaning end to end and re-attesting it at every hop.
§04 · Charters & strategy
Three lenses over one spine.
Each platform charter scopes what that plane owns and where it defers to the shared control room. The strategy thesis spans all three.
Charter
Genlock
Live / timing / transport — PTP, ST 2110 / NMOS, air-path monitoring.
Charter
MuxNode
Encode / package / assembly — ladder economics measured against golden references.
Charter
Cuebus
Meaning / metadata / provenance — extraction, verification, durable attestation.
Strategy
The 2110 / AI Lockstep Thesis
Why the operability layer, not the model layer, is where the durable engineering work sits.
Access
Available on request.
The corpus is released under CC BY 4.0 but is not published openly yet — it is still moving fast enough that a public snapshot would be out of date on arrival, and the source-authority index (module 12) is mid-pass. If you want to read it, ask and we will send it.
Researchers, broadcast engineers, and anyone working on trustworthy media infrastructure are all welcome to ask. Tell us roughly what you are working on so we can point you at the right modules rather than dumping the whole set on you.