Evaluation planning

Technical evaluation checklist.

Use the details relevant to your project. You do not need to complete every item before contacting us.

01

Your media requirements

Product or project
What are you building, and what should the media pipeline do?
Current baseline
Your existing implementation or the alternative you are considering.
Inputs
Formats, protocols, codecs and capture sources.
Outputs
Required file formats, streaming protocols and codecs.
Video and audio
Resolution, frame rate, sample rate and audio layout.

02

Target environment

Platform and hardware
Operating system, CPU, GPU and relevant driver versions.
Scale
Concurrent streams, rooms or participants and expected workload.
Latency
Required budget and where you measure it: frame processing, pipeline or end to end.

03

Integration and delivery

Application access
Graph control, preview, plugins for video frames/audio samples/packets, or agreed source components.
Delivery modules
Binary SDK, source scope, Runtime Container or Server Container.
Deployment rights
Internal or hosted use, software redistribution or shipped hardware.
Extensions
Selected models, optional processors and language bindings.
Recording and protection
Recording, storage, encryption, DRM and external provider requirements.

04

Success and schedule

Acceptance criteria
Correctness, latency, resource use, lifecycle and failure handling.
Timing
Target milestones and delivery constraints.
Assistance
SDK/evaluation access and integration or engineering help needed.
Referral (optional)
How you found CoreMF.