Parole - Preferences


To configure Parole, choose ToolsPreferences. This will bring up the Parole Settings dialog, which allows you to adjust Parole's behavior to your needs. The screenshots below all show the default settings.

Open Parole Preferences
Open Parole Preferences


General

Parole General Preferences Tab
Parole General Preferences Tab


Screensaver

Disable screensaver when playing movies


Audio Visualization

Show visual effects when an audio file is played

Visualization type:


Keyboard

Enable keyboard multimedia keys

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Display

Parole Display Tab
Parole Display Tab


Video Output

You can select one of three backends for video playback. Note that this will have an impact on the performance, so if you notice choppy playback, you can try another backend. Also note that you have to restart Parole after switching to a different backend. While the Clutter and XV backend make use of hardware video acceleration, the “No XV” option uses (the usually slower) software acceleration.


Color Balance

Moving the sliders changes the color balance of the video being played or the audio effects being displayed (if visual effects are enabled). Changes can be applied while the media are playing and they take effect immediately. If you are unhappy with your changes, press the Reset to defaults button. Note that the color balance settings can only be changed when using one of the two “X Window System” options in the Video Output section above.

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Playlist

Parole Playlist Tab
Parole Playlist Tab


Playlist Settings

Always replace playlist with opened files

Check and remove duplicate media entries

Start playing opened files

Remember playlist

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Subtitles

Parole Subtitles Tab
Parole Subtitles Tab


Subtitle Settings

Automatically show subtitles when playing movie file


Hidden Settings

You can configure additional settings of Parole directly via xfconf, either by using xfce4-settings-editor (GUI) or by using the command-line-tool xfconf-query.

hide-controls-timeout

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