Parole is a DVD/CD/music player for Xfce that uses GStreamer.
This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS 11.3 platform.
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/4.18/parole-4.18.0.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: 319cd9bdbda677f93c390edaac91ca45
Download size: 912 KB
Estimated disk space required: 18 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.