(In reply to Frisbee Whisperwind from comment #8)
> Hi,
>
> I'm new here and I had a similar error on Archlinux+XFCE. The problem was
> because gst-plugins-base was marked as an optional dependancy while without
> it Parole always showed a GStreamer backend error. Don't know whether it is
> relevent for Xubuntu.
Yup, this issue has in fact been solved in Xubuntu 14.04 meanwhile (by making gst-plugins-base a recommend).
(In reply to Frisbee Whisperwind from comment #8)
> Hi,
>
> I'm new here and I had a similar error on Archlinux+XFCE. The problem was
> because gst-plugins-base was marked as an optional dependancy while without
> it Parole always showed a GStreamer backend error. Don't know whether it is
> relevent for Xubuntu.
Yup, this issue has in fact been solved in Xubuntu 14.04 meanwhile (by making gst-plugins-base a recommend).