Can't get VLC Video Source with Flatpak release

I'm running openSUSE Tumbleweed, and I decided to try the newer Flatpak version of OBS Studio as opposed to the package provided by the Packman repository.

The Flatpak is quite good, but I can't figure out how to get the VLC Video Source. I had previously used it to play all the videos in a folder of mine in a shuffled order as part of a "Starting Soon" screen. All gameplay clips of my own, of course. But without the VLC Video Source, my only option is the normal Media Source, and that only allows for a single media file.

I tried installing the Flatpak version of VLC, but that didn't help. I know pretty much nothing about Flatpak sandboxing or the permissions, so I don't know if there's a way to get it to work. Is there a way to get the VLC Video Source in the Flatpak version of OBS Studio?

I have the same experience and would like to have the VLC source available. Or have more options (like shuffle of a folder and sub-folders) on the standard media source.

Can we just have this with a flatpack configuration?
As I understand it the VLC source appear when OBS see VLC on the disc, so a specific pluging should not be necessary, isn’t it?
Is there a mpv/gstreamer or some other player option that is easier to configure?

Well, I just digged into obs-flatpack’s build and saw that VLC is disabled: https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/actions/runs/3286721415/jobs/5415123694#step:5:13108

-- OBS: DISABLED vlc-video
CMake Warning at cmake/Modules/ObsHelpers.cmake:446 (message):
OBS: VLC plugin supported is not enabled by default - please switch
ENABLE_VLC to ON to enable this functionality.
Call Stack (most recent call first):
plugins/vlc-video/CMakeLists.txt:6 (obs_status)

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Which according to the cmake config means that any config will not work, we will need a rebuild of the flatpack version with ENABLE_VLC activated. And maybe some config.

So I just opened an "idea" for this, please upvote it :) https://ideas.obsproject.com/posts/2010/enable-vlc-on-flatpack

Adding VLC and all of it's dependencies to the Flatpak is a maintenance nightmare and so will not be considered.

Adding VLC and all it's dependencies shouldn't be necessary. As noted OBS will enable the source if it can find VLC. So if VLC is installed as a regular application (not a flatpak) then https://docs.flatpak.org/en/latest/sandbox-permissions.html or Flatseal could be used to provide flatpak OBS access to VLC to enable the source.

Tekchip said:

So if VLC is installed as a regular application (not a flatpak) then https://docs.flatpak.org/en/latest/sandbox-permissions.html or Flatseal could be used to provide flatpak OBS access to VLC to enable the source.

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Flatpak shall not interact with system libraries because this is a bad idea for multiple reasons (symbol clash because of the use if different version of a lib, defeat even more the purpose of the sandbox).

So I repeat:

Adding VLC and all of it's dependencies to the Flatpak is a maintenance nightmare and so will not be considered.

If there was a easier way, I would have added it since a while but this is not case at all.

Adding AV1 (AOM, SVT), RIST and AJA support was easy (just add a module), enabling service integrations (Twitch, Restream, YouTube) in the Flatpak was a little less easy but it just required improving the Flatpak tooling. VLC is not easy.