Build-in media player is not working on Linux.

[iDarknessSam]

Bug Description

2026-03-25.00-15-17.mp4

As you can see from the video, I need to download any type of video in order to watch anything which is different from iOS for example where it open a mini media player where you can see the video without needing to download it. This make the process of watching a lot of different videos to be more tedious and complicated. It seems that this happens anywhere from personal chats to rooms and spaces. It doesn't even show a preview on the message!

Steps to Reproduce

grab any video file, send or search for anyone that had send anything and try to watch.

Expected Behavior

It's supposed to be like on iOS, you see a video it has a preview of it, and when you tap instead of downloading it you actually open a mini video player where you can see the video without needing to download. But here you need to always download any video from any video file.

App Version

2.4.0

Platform

Linux (Flatpak)

Additional Platform Information

Arch Linux (KDE)

Additional Context

My friend said that this problem also happens into her Android phone too, so i guess this is something involving Linux based systems or something?

[RiPetitor]

У меня такая же проблема на версии 2.4.1

При попытке загрузки видео через телефон вылазит ошибка

[krille-chan]

There is no video player on Linux so this is a missing feature, not a bug

[prescottc4]

If linux ever gets a media player it might be easiest to use dart_vlc

[iDarknessSam]

If linux ever gets a media player it might be easiest to use dart_vlc

I was thinking the same thing, could just...put the VLC API inside the FluffyChat and make the VLC code to run the videos.
VLC is open source and really powerful.

[TheSunCat]

This will be fixed by #2473 :)

[iDarknessSam]

This will be fixed by #2473 :)

Thank you so much!