Re: Proposed Aim for Speak Freely

If you want to get an idea of the advantages, and of the short comings of high 
speed audio, try
http://www.ventrilo.com
As close to fm quality as I have heard.
But there is good and bad.
Before I go into it, I think I will let you play with it for more feedback.
It is free anyhow.

Frank.


Text of your message written on 18 Aug 2003, 
 reads thus: Re: [speak-freely] Proposed Aim for Speak Freely

I concur. I do not need high quality audio, since all my traffic is
telephone quality (or less) radio communications.  I use SF to link various
radio repeater sites together and do not want or need additional codecs.
Some of my sites have *very* limited network bandwidth, with some running 
as
slow as 9600 bps.  That 9600 bps is shared with other non-VOIP traffic no
less!

I think that SF programming effort should emphasize a solution of the NAT
problem, possibly using a single port for both control and VOIP packets,
code cleanup, turning it into a GUI-less DLL, Etc.

After all the important stuff is done, then add all the codecs you like -
but make sure you #ifdef them in the code so I can shut them all off :-) If
you guys can come up with codecs that use LESS bandwidth than the ones
already included in SF with decent audio quality, then go for it.

Lets focus on the original intended use of SF before reinventing RealAudio,
Windoze Media Player, Etc.

Kevin

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "P Heyden" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, August 16, 2003 07:14
Subject: Re: [speak-freely] Proposed Aim for Speak Freely


> Gentlemen,
>
> I have followed this thread of what ought and what ought not be done with
SF
> and I only ask that the collective "we" not forget what many of us use SF
> for.  Namely, "plain old internet telephone".
>
> It is nice to talk about high quality codecs etc, but I can tel you that
for
> normal telecommunications 64K is not needed.  For many years I ran very
good
> quality PCM multiplexed voice circuits at 16K.  Our customers could not
tell
> the difference between 16k and 64K.
>
> What is needed is a definitive plan for the future of SF.  As in many
things
> you have to walk before you run.  I see the maintenance and support of the
> current product as a basic cornerstone for what the future might hold.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Paul vander Heyden



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