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

[Charles Johnson]

I have the same interest. As Brent said I also think they use a portable file AppImage and no one can force a project to use X or Y technology, but the reasons they gave me greatly caught my attention, because if you can distribute an application like VLC as Flatpak, many third-party developers would be interested to be a common use case for cross-platform applications (Ex. Media Player, Video Editor, Video Transcoder, Web Browser, etc).

I asked if there is a thread on this topic to VLC developers, but not yet receive a response.


CJT
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De: xdg-app <xdg-app-bounces at lists.freedesktop.org> en nombre de Alberto Ruiz <aruiz at gnome.org>
Enviado: lunes, 13 de junio de 2016 08:33:22 p. m.
Para: Brent Fox
Cc: Charles Johnson; xdg-app at lists.freedesktop.org
Asunto: Re: Is it possible to use Flatpak in applications such as VLC Media Player?

I'd be interested to understand the Flatpak developers' point of view on this. I'd say VLC should be in one of the top 5 use cases for Flatpak to cover, is one of the most used open source apps aside from the browsers realm. It'd be really bad press if VLC is out and a shame if VLC falls down the cracks just because we didn't communicate properly with the developers on time.

2016-06-13 20:06 GMT+01:00 Brent Fox <brent at endlessm.com<mailto:brent at endlessm.com>>:
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<mailto: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 K?hne 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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