There's some functionality that's not working yet though:
No support for optical discs
The MPRIS plugin doesn't work as we're missing dbus-python (I'm not sure that the plugin will survive anyway, it's more suited to audio players, don't worry though, it's not going to be removed until we have made changes to the sound system in GNOME)
No libva/VDPAU hardware acceleration (which would require plugins, and possibly device access of some sort)
However, I created a bundle that extends the freedesktop runtime, that contains gst-libav. We'll need to figure out a way to distribute it in a way that doesn't cause problems for US hosts.
As we also have a recurring problem in Fedora with rpmfusion being out of date, and I sometimes need a third-party movie player to test things out, I put together an mpvmanifest, which is the only MPlayer-like with a .desktop and a GUI when launched without any command-line arguments.
Hopefully, those few manifests will be useful to other application developers wanting to distribute their applications themselves. There are some other bundles being worked on, and that can be used as examples, linked to in the Wiki.
"Blog backlog, Post 2, xdg-app bundles"
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I used to use Totem to listen to music videos. Does that make it an audio player? ;)
17 May 2016 at 07:45
@Marius: jury is out on that one. Not sure why you're asking that though.
17 May 2016 at 09:08