Platform support

macOS is the primary platform, and everything works there. videre also builds and runs on Linux, with one functional gap.

Per-command support

	macOS	Linux
scan, dedupe, report, fix-dates, prune, locations, stats, mcp, config	yes	yes
embed, search	yes (GPU)	yes (CPU only)
faces	yes	yes
watch	yes	yes (--heic stage unavailable)
HEIC decoding	yes	no
Video frame extraction	yes	no
HEIC and video scanning, hashing, EXIF	yes	yes
File creation time	yes	always empty

Intel Macs are not supported

The ONNX Runtime dependency ships no prebuilt binaries for x86_64-apple-darwin, so any build fails with:

no prebuilt binaries available for target x86_64-apple-darwin

This is not a packaging problem and cannot be worked around by building it yourself: cargo install videre fails identically on an Intel Mac.

The HEIC and video gap on Linux

HEIC images and video frames are decoded through macOS QuickLook, which has no equivalent elsewhere. On Linux, .heic, .mov and .mp4 files get:

• no thumbnails
• no search embeddings
• no face detection
• no near-duplicate fingerprint

They are still scanned, hashed, EXIF-extracted, and exactly de-duplicated. The failure is explicit rather than silent: a message is printed once per run rather than each file failing quietly.

Regular JPEG, PNG, GIF, WebP, BMP and TIFF work identically on both platforms.

Building on ARM64 Linux

Building from source needs one extra flag. The released binary does not, since it is already built with it:

RUSTFLAGS="-C target-feature=+fp16" cargo install videre

Without it the build fails with instruction requires: fullfp16. Building from inside a clone of the repository handles this automatically.

x86_64 Linux is unaffected.

Caution

cargo check passes on ARM64 Linux even when cargo build fails, because check never runs code generation. A green check is not evidence that cargo install works.