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

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 5:42 AM Alberto Ruiz <aruiz at gnome.org> wrote:

> 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?
>

I could approach them if people are comfortable with that?  If someone has
a contact I can reach out and see what's going on.

sri


>
> 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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