Parole Media Player
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
- Introduction to Parole – What makes Parole special.
- Usage – Basic handling of the application.
Configuration
- Preferences – Configuring the media player.
- Command-line Options – Parameters for starting Parole.
- Plugins – Extend Parole with additional functionality.
Required packages
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.
Latest Release
- parole 4.20.0 released (2025/05/21 08:50)parole 4.20.0 is now available for download from https://archive.xfce.org/src/apps/parole/4.20/parole-4.20.0.tar.xz https://archive.xfce.org/src/apps/parole/4.20/parole-4.20.0.tar.xz?sha1 https://archive.xfce.org/src/apps/parole/4.20/parole-4.20.0.tar.xz?sha256 What is parole? =============== Parole is a modern simple media player based on the GStreamer framework and written to fit well in the Xfce desktop. Website: https://docs.xfce.org/apps/parole/start Release notes for 4.20.0 ======================== Meson has been added as a build system in this release, and the associated archive has been generated by 'meson dist'. Although autotools has been retained for the time being and can still be used via 'autogen.sh', meson is now the preferred build system, and autotools will be removed in a future release. - Update README after switchover to meson - build: Automate copyright year management - Add meson build - build: Use @ENUMPREFIX@ in glib-mkenums template - build: Simplify desktop file generation - build: Fix shellcheck issues in mime scripts - build: Remove clutter support - build: Replace xdt-csource with glib-compile-resources - Translation Updates: Arabic, Armenian (Armenia), Basque, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (China), Chinese (Taiwan), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Eastern Armenian, English (Australia), English (United Kingdom), Estonian, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Interlingue, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Korean, Lithuanian, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Occitan (post 1500), Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazil), Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian
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