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

[Brent Fox]

I will reach back out to Jean-Baptiste to see if he's willing to engage on
a call. We need to get the technical blockers spec'd out one by one so that
we can see where things stand.

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On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 11:04 PM, Charles Johnson <
charlesjohnsont at outlook.com> wrote:

> Thank you for your answer, it is what I thought. It's crazy to see that
> kind of comments when there has been no communication.
>
> Thanks for your work with Flatpak.
>
>
> CJT
> ------------------------------
> *De:* Alexander Larsson <alexl at redhat.com>
> *Enviado:* lunes, 13 de junio de 2016 10:07:59 p. m.
> *Para:* Charles Johnson; xdg-app at lists.freedesktop.org
> *Asunto:* Re: Is it possible to use Flatpak in applications such as VLC
> Media Player?
>
> 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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