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Parole is a modern simple media player based on the GStreamer framework and written to fit well in the Xfce desktop. Parole is designed with simplicity, speed and resource usage in mind.

Parole features playback of local media files, including video with subtitles support, DVD/CD and live streams. Parole is also extensible via plugins, and it is shipped with a browser media player plugin.

• Gtk 2.16 or above
• Glib 2.16 or above
• Gio 2.16 or above
• DBus glib 0.70 or above
• gstreamer0.10, gstreamer0.10-base, version 0.10.11 or above
• libxfcegui4 4.6.0 or above (will be replaced by libxfce4ui for 0.2.2)
• libxfce4util 4.6.0 or above
• libnotify 0.4.1 or above (optional)
• tabligc 1.4 or above (optional)

The GStreamer framework provides a strong plugin interface to dynamically load plugins that support certain media types, the more you have GStreamer plugins installed in your system the more you can play media formats with Parole. Parole is completely free, means that you can user it, redistribute it and/or modify it under GNU general public license, in the other hands some GStreamer plugins are not free, for example to decode some closed media formats, and possibly other plugins have licensing issues with their source code, it is up to you or usually to the distribution to ship/accept the license of these plugins, here is the list of Gstreamer plugins

Base functionality of GStreamer.

Plugins for most open formats.

Plugins that Need more work to be good.

Plugins which are not Free and possibly with license issue, you will need these plugins for DVD playback. For more information about GStreamer plugins have a look to this page.

Parole is shipped with the following plugins:

• System tray icon, minimize Parole to the system tray.
• Stream Properties plugin, change stream meta data.
• Window title, Set parole window title to the current playing stream.
• Power Manager, prevents the power manager from activating the automatic sleep while playing VCD and DVD.

Work in progress to include DVB support for next 0.2.2 release.

The browser plugin will work with gecko based browsers, the plugin is developed and tested under Mozilla firefox, version 0.2.0.1 will have a fix for midori compatibality. While it is already usuable the plugin is still fresh and needs more effort to make more stable.

Since version 0.2.0.1 is enough to start parole with

parole --device=dev (where dev is /dev/sr0 for example)

Parole will handle the rest, e.g. will detect if the device has media, the media type and start playing it, to enable autoplay in your Xfce desktop you need Thunar Volman, once installed you can configure thunar to start parole when audio cd and dvd/vcd are inserted

parole --device=%d

parole-0.2.0.2 — 2010/01/25 12:03

parole-0.2.0.1 — 2010/01/14 20:35

parole-0.2.0 — 2010/01/05 13:19

You can check out the Xfce GIT Repository like so:

git clone http://git.xfce.org/git/apps/parole

You can view the GIT source tree online as well.

./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr (or ./configure if you are compiling a normal release).
make
make install (as root)

Ideas are always welcome, please see the section Reporting bugs, please flag your report as a feature request.

These kind of problems are always caused by the backend that parole is relying on while the device manager layer on Linux is a complete mess, there is nothing we can do to avoid these kind of problems unfortunately, but as a work around you can click on media→Open Location then use dvd:// or cdda:// for audio disks, etc...

No, while the interface is probably similar, but Parole is a new player written completely from scratch, Parole is faster and lighter, its plugin interface is completely different, but of course there code taken from Totem also from the gnome terminal.

Please report all bugs on Xfce Bugzilla, using the ‘Xfce Goodies’ project and ‘parole’ component.