Is it possible to use Flatpak in applications such as VLC Media Player?

[Brent Fox]

Hi all,

I have been in touch with Jean-Baptiste Kempf  at VideoLAN and got the same
response. He told me that they are looking at AppImage instead.

--Brent

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On Sat, Jun 11, 2016 at 4:42 PM, Charles Johnson <
charlesjohnsont at outlook.com> wrote:

> Well, I ask the question because of curiosity, I contacted VLC developers
> to know if they are interested in distributing VLC as a Flatpak package in
> the future, however Felix Paul Kühne answer was:
>
> "We are certainly interesting in providing VLC as a cross-distribution
> binary package for Linux. However, flatpak is not suitable for VLC at this
> point, as it doesn’t allow DVD, BlurRay or DVB playback and the flatpak
> developers are unwilling to fix those limitations of their approach."
>
> Especially the last line caught my attention. that's true?
> I have not been able to find a discussion thread about it and understand
> that Flatpak is a framework that is in active development and not yet has
> all the features expected.
>
> Thank you
>
>
> CJT
>
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