Parole Media Player

• Introduction
• Required Packages
• Latest Release
• Source Code Repository
• Reporting Bugs

Parole is a modern simple media player based on the GStreamer framework and written to fit well in the Xfce desktop. Parole features playback of local media files, DVD/CD and live streams.

Parole is extensible via plugins, for a complete how to write a plugin for Parole see the Plugins API documentation and the plugins directory which contains some useful examples.

• Introduction to Parole – What makes Parole special.
• Usage – Basic handling of the application.

• Preferences – Configuring the media player.
• Command-line Options – Parameters for starting Parole.
• Plugins – Extend Parole with additional functionality.

Parole depends on the following packages:

• GTK >=3.20.0
• GLib >=2.32.0
• Gio 2.32 or above.
• D-Bus >=0.60
• DBus glib 0.70 or above.
• GStreamer: base, video, interface and GStreamer X, version 1.0.0 or above.
• libxfce4ui 4.11.0 or above.
• libxfce4util 4.10.0 or above.

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• parole 4.18.1 released (2023/11/30 17:40)

Read the CHANGELOG

• Download current release (link also contains older versions)

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https://gitlab.xfce.org/apps/parole

• Reporting Bugs – Open bug reports and how to report new bugs

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