Parole is a DVD/CD/music player for Xfce that uses GStreamer.
Development versions of BLFS may not build or run some packages properly if dependencies have been updated since the most recent stable versions of the book.
Although this version of parole works with most files, it is unable to play DVDs, reporting an error in the gstreamer backend.
Download (HTTP): https://archive.xfce.org/src/apps/parole/4.16/parole-4.16.0.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: b9adffdef4bab6ca454569d562051843
Download size: 904 KB
Estimated disk space required: 22 MB
Estimated build time: 0.2 SBU
gst-plugins-base-1.22.0, gst-plugins-good-1.22.0 and libxfce4ui-4.18.2
libnotify-0.8.1 and taglib-1.13
User Notes: https://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/parole
Install Parole by running the following commands:
./configure --prefix=/usr && make
This package does not come with a test suite.
Now, as the root
user:
make install
If you have installed Gstreamer Plugins Ugly with support for libdvdnav and libdvdread and would like to use Parole to play a DVD, click Media> Open location and enter dvd:// into the box.
Similarly, to play a CD, click Media> Open location and enter cdda:// into the box.