Question: access to locally installed app

[arvigeus]

I am trying to add mpv-autosub plugin, which requires subliminal. I tried to give mpv access to ~/.local/bin and set ~/.local/bin/subliminal in the plugin config, but it still does not work. What am I missing?

[Erick555]

Flatpak apps are isolated from other apps.

[fastrizwaan]

I've added subliminal-wrapper, with this commit 451f4d2

Install subliminal with pip install subliminal

Please make --host or --home writeable for downloads to work, using flatseal

autosub.lua script is not downloading subtitle,
but subliminal wrapper inside flatpak is downloading.

flatpak run --filesystem=host --command=bash io.mpv.Mpv 
[📦 io.mpv.Mpv Uncharted]$ subliminal download -l en  uncharted.mkv 
Collecting videos  [####################################]  100%               
1 video collected / 0 video ignored / 0 error
Downloading subtitles  [####################################]  100%     

[fastrizwaan]

you may test with flatpak install https://dl.flathub.org/build-repo/88527/io.mpv.Mpv.flatpakref

[arvigeus]

[arvigeus@fedora ~]$ flatpak run --filesystem=host --command=bash io.mpv.Mpv 
[📦 io.mpv.Mpv ~]$ subliminal -v
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/var/home/arvigeus/.local/bin/subliminal", line 5, in <module>
    from subliminal.cli import subliminal
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'subliminal'

Anyway, I don't think this is the right way to do it (manually writing what I want). Probably I should just make a shell script that automates this. Or use VLC because it has similar functionality.

Thanks for the swift response!

[fastrizwaan]

Anyway, I don't think this is the right way to do it (manually writing what I want). Probably I should just make a shell script that automates this. Or use VLC because it has similar functionality.

I think the autosub.lua script has issue with variable local subliminal= it should just use $PATH instead of absolute path, so that wrappers work.

Thanks for the swift response!

You're welcome!

[Erick555]

If the solution wasn't accepted by original reporter then I think merging it in main repo was premature. The --talk-name=org.freedesktop.Flatpak practically turns off sandbox security.

[fastrizwaan]

Reverted subliminal wrapper. Security is important. b8877ca

[Erick555]

One option would be to add subminimal into fatpak although it has significant number of python dependencies.

[fastrizwaan]

Included subliminal with commit 4d88d8b

autosub.lua downloads subtitles as expected.

@arvigeus kindly test. make sure write permission to HOME or HOST for downloading subtitles and

set local subliminal = '/app/bin/subliminal' in autosub.lua file.

flatpak install https://dl.flathub.org/build-repo/89044/io.mpv.Mpv.flatpakref

[arvigeus]

Works like a charm! Maybe this should be added as a listed feature in flathub description?

[fastrizwaan]

autosub.lua installation notes

cd /tmp
git clone https://github.com/davidde/mpv-autosub.git
cd mpv-autosub/
sed "s/local subliminal = .*$/local subliminal = '\/app\/bin\/subliminal/g" -i autosub.lua 
mkdir -p ~/.var/app/io.mpv.Mpv/config/mpv/scripts/
cp autosub.lua ~/.var/app/io.mpv.Mpv/config/mpv/scripts/
flatpak --user override --filesystem=host io.mpv.Mpv ; # to download subtitles in the same directory containing video