Issue with Parole [SOLVED]

[ChuangTzu]

interesting, i use vlc so never noticed this, here is the message:

copy/pasted a link from youtube:

"Additional Software Required
Parole needs text/html decoder to play this file.
It can be installed automatically."

Click install and nothing happens, strange it seems to be a bug going back to 2013, as Xubuntu users were looking for a solution as well.

[pourpier]

Maybe this:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions ... 175562470/

That is, try installing the "optional dependencies" listed here:
https://slackbuilds.org/slackbuilds/14. ... bad/README
https://slackbuilds.org/slackbuilds/14. ... gly/README

It's probably a long shot though. It may be that Parole would need to be rebuilt with this functionality, even if everything needed were present.

I installed all the suggested libraries. Nothing changed. I still have this problem. In Xubuntu as someone reported it, it was solved thanks to libgnomevfs2-extra but that library doesn't exist in Slackware.
Best regards,
Serge

[gapan]

Parole does not support youtube links. VLC and smplayer do.

[pourpier]

Parole does not support youtube links. VLC and smplayer do.

I don't mind too much as I have other multimedia players and there is a workaround by downloading the video with youtube-dl.
I will edit the line of the subject as solved but it is a limitation of Parole which is the media player installed by default in Salix.
Perhaps it would be better to have another default choice !
Best regards,
Serge

[ChuangTzu]

pourpier, perhaps:
https://docs.xfce.org/apps/parole/bugs

[mimosa]

I will edit the line of the subject as solved

For this to work, it has to be the original post, not the most recent one. I have done it for you this time.