Parole Alternatives
Parole is described as 'media player for the Xfce desktop environment, written using the GStreamer framework' and is an app in the Audio & Music category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Parole for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Mac, Android and BSD. The best alternative is VLC Media Player, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Parole are MPC-HC (Free, Open Source), MPV (Free, Open Source), PotPlayer (Free) and Clementine (Free, Open Source).
- VLC is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework. Owned by the non-profit organization VideoLAN. View 260 alternatives to VLC Media Player
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
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- Android
- iPhone
- Chrome OS
- Windows S
- Android Tablet
- BSD
- Windows Phone
- iPad
- Blackberry 10
- Apple Watch
- Apple TV
- Kindle Fire
- Haiku
- MPC-HC is an extremely light-weight, open source media player for Windows. It supports all common video and audio file formats available for playback. View 115 alternatives to MPC-HC
- MPV is an audio and movie player based on MPlayer and mplayer2. View 74 alternatives to MPV
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
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- Android
- BSD
- Xfce
- Minimalist video player that supports 3D video, Direct3D9 Ex Flip Mode, and sound card selection. View 103 alternatives to PotPlayer
Bundleware
Several antivirus detect a potentially unwanted application (adware) PUA.FusionCore in the file F.dll dropped by the installer of PotPlayer in the Temp folder. Once that file is blocked by the antivirus, the program is installed with no problems and ads.
- Free • Proprietary
- Windows
- Clementine is a cross-platform free and open source music player and library organizer based on Amarok 1.4. View 197 alternatives to Clementine
- Free and full-featured media player with seamless, high-quality audio playback and comprehensive format support. View 171 alternatives to AIMP
- Free • Proprietary
- Windows
- Android
- PortableApps.com
- Strawberry is a music player and music collection organizer. It's written in C++ using the Qt framework. View 189 alternatives to Strawberry
- SMPlayer intends to be a complete front-end for MPlayer, from basic features like playing videos, DVDs, and VCDs to more advanced features like support for MPlayer filters and... View 102 alternatives to SMPlayerNo screenshots yet
- Free • Open Source
- Windows
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- BSD
- mpv
- PortableApps.com
- Haiku
- MPlayer
- MX Player - The best way to enjoy your movies. a) HARDWARE ACCELERATION - Hardware acceleration can be applied to more videos with the help of new H/W decoder. View 132 alternatives to MX Player
- Freemium • Proprietary
- Android
- Android Tablet
- MPlayer is a movie player which runs on many systems (see the documentation). View 112 alternatives to MPlayer
- Free • Open Source
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
- AmigaOS
- Xfce
- MorphOS