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====== Parole Media Player ======

  * **[[#Introduction|Introduction]]**
  * **[[#Required Packages|Required Packages]]**
  * **[[#Latest Release|Latest Release]]**
  * **[[#Source Code Repository|Source Code Repository]]**
  * **[[#Reporting Bugs|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.

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===== Introduction =====

  * **[[introduction|Introduction to Parole]]** -- What makes Parole special.
  * **[[usage|Usage]]** -- Basic handling of the application.

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===== Configuration =====

  * **[[preferences|Preferences]]** -- Configuring the media player.
  * **[[command-line|Command-line Options]]** -- Parameters for starting Parole.
  * **[[plugins|Plugins]]** -- Extend Parole with additional functionality.

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===== Required packages =====

Parole depends on the following packages:

  * [[https://www.gtk.org|GTK]] >=3.20.0
  * [[https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/GLib|GLib]] >=2.32.0
  * Gio 2.32 or above.
  * [[https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/dbus|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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===== Latest Release =====
{{rss>https://archive.xfce.org/feeds/project/parole 1 date 2h}}

[[https://gitlab.xfce.org/apps/parole/-/blob/master/NEWS|Read the CHANGELOG]]

  * **[[https://archive.xfce.org/src/apps/parole/|Download current release]]** (older versions of this component are also available here)

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===== Source Code Repository =====
[[https://gitlab.xfce.org/apps/parole|]]

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===== Reporting Bugs =====

  * **[[:apps:parole:bugs|Reporting Bugs]]** -- List of currently open bugs and instructions on how to submit new bug reports

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