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Parole

Parole is a media player for the Xfce desktop environment, written using the GStreamer framework. Created by Ali Abdallah

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Xfce

Parole is a media player for the Xfce desktop environment, written using the GStreamer framework.
Parole features playback of local media files, including video with subtitles support, DVD/CD and live streams; it is also extensible via plugins.

Download tar.bz2 — http://archive.xfce.org/src/apps/parole/

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Audio & Music Video & Movies

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gstreamer media-player music-player video-player xfce

Parole was added by openuser in Jan 2011 and the latest update was made in Apr 2017. The list of alternatives was updated Aug 2018 There is a history of all activites on Parole in our Activity Log. It's possible to update the information on Parole or report it as discontinued, duplicated or spam.

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