org.videolan.VLC VS com.obsproject.Studio

I went to update today and sometimes i'll get like 10-15 updates after a couple days but today I see 75(!) updates. I went to check the manifest github page to see some of the changes because I like to keep up with what changed. However, for the first time that I remember ever being the case, I have updates for flatpaks that have not committed any changes. For example VLC hasn't had anything new in over a month.

Go into Desktop Mode and click the install button on this page to install VLC.

VLC should be able to do it.

Alternatively you might want to try the flatpak version of VLC. I personally use it and can recommend it.

https://flathub.org/apps/details/org.videolan.VLC - just click the install button and follow the on screen instructions.

I'm using the Flatpak version 3.0.17.4 on Ubuntu 20.04 and see a lot of entries. I tried also 3.0.9.2 from the distribution and there are not even two pages of entries.

media player https://flathub.org/apps/details/org.videolan.VLC

The "see details" link takes you to: https://github.com/flathub/com.obsproject.Studio/graphs/contributors/

With official packages, I have even more questions. Example: OBS Studio. The publisher link points to this repo, which is currently archived, with the message "This repository is no longer used to build OBS. Issues should be reported at https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio". After some digging, I found they're using Github Actions to automatically publish to Flathub on release, which is fine (and pretty cool), but I would still prefer that Flathub provide some kind of records on their end. What assurances do I have that the package installed on my machine from Flathub is the one that was built by upstream? Maybe they have something and I'm not looking in the right place.

Big news for Linux users: We now officially ship OBS Studio via Flatpak (in addition to the PPA), greatly expanding support for more distros and providing a much more consistent experience, no matter your environment. Download it from Flathub here - https://flathub.org/apps/details/com.obsproject.Studio

OBS (stream/rec): Flatpak, Steam(?)

There is obs-studio package in Debian, try using that. Alternatively, you could install it as a Flatpak via Flathub (there were also recent news of OBS Project is making it their official Linux package instead of Ubuntu PPA).

I'm not the only one. The issue tracker is full of people having serious issues like, y'know "Doesn't work at all" and "No fonts," and "Crashes on Alt-Tab," etc.