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

[Alberto Ruiz]

Shouldn't we approach them and make sure they don't just use another
solution based on things that might be present at some point?

2016-06-13 23:07 GMT+01:00 Alexander Larsson <alexl at redhat.com>:

> On Sat, 2016-06-11 at 23:42 +0000, Charles Johnson 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."
>
>
> We currently don't have a solution to that, yes, but we've never said we
> were unwilling to fix them. In fact, it is an open issue in our bugtracker:
> https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/issues/12
>
> Also, I don't remember the VLC developers asking about this.
>
> This is just work that we have to do, as everything else.
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-- 
Cheers,
Alberto Ruiz
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