PAROLE(1)

💖 PAROLE(1) — the girlies' guide to parole 💖

okay so bestie, this is the manual for parole, and it lives in section 1 (User Commands) of the manual pages. it's a Gstreamer-based media player and she is literally that girl. let's get into it 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

parole — Gstreamer-based media player

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

🫶 Usage:

parole [OPTION...]

like, that's the whole vibe. you run parole and you can hand her some options if you want. no cap.

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💅 Help Options:

• -h, --help — show help options. she'll tell you what's up 🥰
• --help-all — show all the help options. the full lore, not just the highlights.
• --help-gst — show the GStreamer Options. yes, separate help, because GStreamer has her own whole thing going on.
• --help-gtk — show the GTK+ Options. same energy, different toolkit.

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🌈 GStreamer Options

these are the GStreamer girlies. lowkey iconic, highkey verbose.

• --gst-version — print the GStreamer version. just the numbers, bestie.
• --gst-fatal-warnings — make all warnings fatal. she is NOT playing around, every warning is main character energy 😭
• --gst-debug-help — print the available debug categories and then exit. window shopping for debug info, periodt.
• --gst-debug-level=LEVEL — default debug level, from 1 (only error) all the way to 5 (anything), or 0 for no output at all. silence is golden fr fr.
• --gst-debug=LIST — a comma-separated list of category_name:level pairs so you can set specific levels for individual categories. example: GST_AUTOPLUG:5,GST_ELEMENT_*:3 — see, you can go per-category, she's flexible 💅
• --gst-debug-no-color — disable the colored debugging output. sad beige debugging for sad beige girlies 🙈
• --gst-debug-disable — disable debugging entirely. she said not today.
• --gst-plugin-spew — enable verbose plugin loading diagnostics. it's giving a lot of text and we respect it.
• --gst-plugin-path=PATHS — colon-separated paths containing plugins. colon-separated, not comma, don't get it twisted.
• --gst-plugin-load=PLUGINS — comma-separated list of plugins to preload in addition to the list stored in the environment variable GST_PLUGIN_PATH. both. she wants both.
• --gst-disable-segtrap — disable trapping of segmentation faults during plugin loading. dramatic but okay.
• --gst-disable-registry-update — disable updating the registry.
• --gst-disable-registry-fork — disable spawning a helper process while scanning the registry. no helper, she does it herself, independent queen 👑

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🦋 GTK+ Options

• --class=CLASS — program class as used by the window manager.
• --name=NAME — program name as used by the window manager.
• --screen=SCREEN — the X screen to use.
• --sync — make X calls synchronous.
• --gtk-module=MODULES — load additional GTK+ modules.
• --g-fatal-warnings — make all warnings fatal. (yes, again. GTK+ said same.)

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👑 Application Options:

this is the good part, bestie. the actual parole stuff.

• -i, --new-instance — open a new instance. more parole, more problems, more fun ✨
• -n, --no-plugins — do not load plugins.
• --device — set the Audio-CD/VCD/DVD device path. old-school media, we love her for it.
• -p, --play — play, or pause if she's already playing. it's a toggle, she contains multitudes.
• -s, --stop — stop playing.
• -N, --next-track — next track ⏭️
• -P, --previous-track — previous track ⏮️
• -f, --seek-f — seek forward.
• -b, --seek-b — seek Backward.
• -r, --raise-volume — raise the volume. turn it UP 🍓
• -l, --lower-volume — lower the volume. turn it down (respectfully).
• -m, --mute — mute the volume 🤫
• -V, --version — version information.
• -E, --embedded — use embedded mode.
• -F, --fullscreen — start in fullscreen mode. cinema. 🎬
• --xv — Enabled/Disable XV support. (that's literally what the original says, bestie — enabled and disable, both, in one flag. she's mysterious like that.)
• -a, --add — add files to the playlist. queue it up, we're building a whole era 🎶
• --display=DISPLAY — the X display to use.

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😭 REPORTING BUGS 😭

found a bug? report it to http://bugs.debian.org — tell them everything, they wanna hear it, fr fr.

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💜 COPYRIGHT 💜

Copyright © 2009 Ali

this is free software; see the source for copying conditions. there is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. like, none. zero. she's free and she's free, iykyk.

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and that's the whole page, bestie! this one came from the parole manual, dated October 2013, and it's filed under PAROLE(1) in the User Commands section. stay hydrated, read your man pages, mwah 💖🧚‍♀️🌸