About
We want nothing less than to revolutionize "searching for" video as much as the Lumières did "inventing it".
The french brothers Auguste and Louis Lumière didn't exactly invent moving pictures, but they invented a motion picture camera which made shooting film easy and portable.
Later, with their traveling video shows they did in Europe what Edison pulled off in America: they started what would become the motion picture industry.
The Lumières made motion-picture and video popular, that's why they are our heroes and that's why we carry them in our service's name.
The Name, Lumerias
The name Lumerias is a combination of words, where the first part is Lumière. The french word "lumière" translates as "light" in English - we think this is quite appropriate for a video search engine.
The second part of the name Lumerias, the ending "-rias" is from the word for sea star, "Asterias". This contains a hint on our technology, as a component called Asterias was an important part of a
now-gone multimedia search-engine called Singingfish. Its web crawler was called Asterias. In memory of this last time when video searching was fun, we decided to take a part of it into our name.
For members of the media, lumerias.com press releases and downloadable images can be found in the Press Room.
Integrating Lumerias
Lumerias defines itself as a simple and open platform for video search. Following this guideline Lumerias exposes a number of Application
Programming Interfaces (APIs) and/or feeds. So if you are a developer or an interested user, go over to Lumerias APIs to
learn more about the possibilities to integrate Lumerias or interface with our services.
The Lumerias.com API documentation.
Our Robot
Search engines like ours use a technology called web crawler, web spider or robot to scour the web and discover new content. Our particular robot is specialised in indexing video content.
It reads and interprets all major video standards, can parse M3U, SMIL, ASX, PLS, XSPF playlists and extracts meta-data as well as context information.
Our robot also visits and indexes public (anonymous) FTP servers.
Lumerias' robot obeys the Robots Exclusion Standard.