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 4.18.2 released (2024/12/25 16:35)parole 4.18.2 is now available for download from https://archive.xfce.org/src/apps/parole/4.18/parole-4.18.2.tar.bz2 https://archive.xfce.org/src/apps/parole/4.18/parole-4.18.2.tar.bz2?sha1 https://archive.xfce.org/src/apps/parole/4.18/parole-4.18.2.tar.bz2?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 4.18.2 ======================== - Update copyright year - I18n: Update po/LINGUAS list - Added missing Keywords entry to .desktop file - medialist: Fix wrong response code when saving - player: Do not forward up/down keys to playlist - Remove unnecessary GtkAllocation heap allocation - build: Bump dependency versions and remove dead code - scan-build: Fix unix.Malloc - gcc-analyzer: Fix -Wanalyzer-possible-null-argument - build: clang: Fix -Wunused-but-set-variable - I18n: Update po/LINGUAS list - build: Explicitly depend on gstreamer-audio - build: Clean up references of gstreamer-interfaces - build: Explicitly depend on gstreamer-tag - build: Use XDT_VERSION_INIT and get rid of configure.ac.in - build: Switch from intltool to gettext - Do not use type-check macros to test whether an object is still alive - Translation Updates: Albanian, 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, Norwegian Nynorsk, Occitan (post 1500), Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazil), Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uyghur
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