Lumiera is written for GNU/Linux. We try to make the best out of modern system programming techniques to reach the best possible performance. Lumiera shall scale with the provided Hardware, the more RAM and the more/faster CPU’s you have the better. Nevertheless lower end 32bit machines are supported too.
Secondary targets will be other free operating systems which offer a decent Posix API.
Porting to other more or less similar platforms will be possible, if — by coincidence — Someone™ helps with porting.
Having said that — for the time being, the core team won’t spend much effort on porting.
We work and test on PC hardware, 32 and 64 bit. It is intended that Lumiera supports other platforms running run GNU/Linux. Lumiera expects a standard desktop installation running a Xserver.
There are no special requirements for the graphic system. Hardware accelleration will likely be added later through extensions, but will remain strictyl optional. (For now we’ll watch the evolution in that area and might revisit that topic when there are more compelling and widely supported solutions available)
Video editing requires decent disk speed, so it is suggested to use a fast/big array of disks configured as raid.
Sopport for special hardware would be possible, but depends on certain conditions
we need access / donations for the hardware
specs and APIs must be open.
someone to do the actual interfacing and support needs to join the team
C / C++
a C99 / C++98 compatible compiler
GCC 4.4 or better is fine. Basically we try to use just the stock language. On rare occasions, we did use some GCC extensions, but there would be workarounds, should this become a problem.
std::tr1 extensions for C++ (smart-ptrs, hashtables, function objects)
BOOST (listed below are the DEBIAN package names)
libboost-dev (at least 1.40)
libboost-program-options-dev
libboost-program-options-dev
libboost-filesystem-dev
libboost-regex-dev
Script languages
Python (2.5) for build scripts
bash (some test scripts use bash specific extensions)
Lua is planned to become a general glue and binding language
Git
SCons
pkg-config
Doxygen
We maintain a Debian package (debhelper, CDBS, git-buildpackage)
BOOST
NoBug
GAVL (for raw media support)
for the GUI: gtkmm-2.4 gdl-1.0 libglibmm-2.4 cairomm-1.0 xv
libgtkmm-2.4-dev
libcairomm-1.0-dev
libgdl-1-dev
libglibmm-2.4-dev, requiring glib2.0 and gthread-2.0
libxv-dev
librsvg-2.0 and librsvg2-dev for rendering Icons