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| + | ====== Juste une Parole ====== | ||
| + | ===== What is this? ===== | ||
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| + | {{:blog:parole.png }} Parole is a modern simple media player based on the [[http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/|GStreamer]] framework and written to fit well in the [[http://www.xfce.org|Xfce]] desktop. Parole is designed with simplicity, speed and resource usage in mind. | ||
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| + | ===== Features ===== | ||
| + | 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. | ||
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| + | ===== Requirements ===== | ||
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| + | ==== Compile time ==== | ||
| + | * 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) | ||
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| + | ==== Run time ==== | ||
| + | The [[http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/|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 | ||
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| + | === GStreamer base plugins === | ||
| + | Base functionality of GStreamer. | ||
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| + | === GStreamer good plugins === | ||
| + | Plugins for most open formats. | ||
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| + | === GStreamer bad plugins === | ||
| + | Plugins that Need more work to be good. | ||
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| + | === GStreamer ugly plugins === | ||
| + | Plugins which are not **Free** and possibly with license issue, | ||
| + | you will need these plugins for DVD playback. | ||
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| + | For more information about GStreamer plugins have a look to [[http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/documentation/splitup.html|this page]]. | ||
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| + | ===== Plugins ===== | ||
| + | Parole is shipped with the following plugins: | ||
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| + | *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. | ||
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| + | ===== DVB Support ===== | ||
| + | Work in progress to include DVB support for next 0.2.2 release. | ||
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| + | ===== Browser Plugin ===== | ||
| + | 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. | ||
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| + | ===== Screen Shots ===== | ||
| + | {{:projects:parole-1.png }} {{:projects:parole-2.png|}} | ||
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| + | ===== Releases ===== | ||
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| + | You get the source tarball of the latest released from [[http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/applications/parole#releases|here]]. | ||
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| + | ===== GIT ===== | ||
| + | You can check out the Xfce GIT Repository like so: | ||
| + | <code>git clone http://git.xfce.org/git/apps/parole</code> | ||
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| + | You can view the GIT source tree [[http://git.xfce.org/apps/parole|online]] as well. | ||
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| + | ===== Compiling ===== | ||
| + | <code bash> | ||
| + | ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr (or ./configure if you are compiling a normal release). | ||
| + | make | ||
| + | make install (as root) | ||
| + | </code> | ||
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| + | ===== FAQ ===== | ||
| + | === I have a feature request i like to see in Parole? === | ||
| + | Ideas are always welcome, please see the section [[parole#Reporting bugs|Reporting bugs]], please flag your report as a feature request. | ||
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| + | === I inserted a DVD or VCD and i don't see it in the parole media menu === | ||
| + | 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 user dvd:// or cdda:// for audio disks, etc... | ||
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| + | === Is this is a Totem for Xfce? === | ||
| + | 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. | ||
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| + | ===== Reporting bugs ===== | ||
| + | Please report all bugs on [[http://bugzilla.xfce.org/|Xfce Bugzilla]], using the 'Xfce Goodies' project and 'parole' component. | ||