Re: Voice Chat
Hi ppl,
I do use Skype, both for PC-PC and PC-Phone calls from my debian station. The
quality for PC-Phones isn't as good as for PC-PC calls, but very good anyway,
and the calls are even cheaper than local calls here in Portugal.
You can find prices in the skype.com site @:
http://www.skype.com/products/skypeout/rates/.
themage
On Tuesday 15 March 2005 19:46, Jacob S wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 19:56:29 +0100
>
> Bruno Hertz <brrhtz@yahoo.de> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 10:38 -0600, Jacob S wrote:
> > > I'm looking for some recommendations on a good voice chat program.
> > > Both clients will be Sarge, to start, though I may add an OS X
> > > client later. Both clients have dsl connections and are not on the
> > > same network. It also needs to be semi-secure, since it will be
> > > going across the internet(it doesn't have to be encrypted, but I
> > > would like to avoid plain text passwords being transferred across
> > > the internet).
> > >
> > > Recommendations for anything from IM clients with voice chat to
> > > GnomeMeeting or similar are welcome. VoIP would probably be overkill
> > > at this point, though if there are free solutions that work well, I
> > > have not totally ruled it out.
> > >
> > > TIA,
> > > Jacob
> >
> > I like the term voice chat, because it sounds like it would make
> > things somehow easier than VoIP :)
>
> hmm... Voice chat does sound more like a casual IM conversation, whereas
> VoIP makes me think of communication between computers and phone
> numbers, extra software and possibly even harder and most of all - $$$.
> But my goal here is just good sound quality and free; not any certain
> methods.
>
> > Anyway, I don't know whether Skype or any of that proprietary
> > offerings support Linux. But you could always go with a 0$ tarif from
> > VoIP providers like FWD and register there either with a SIP client
> > (SJPhone, XLite beta both closed source, linphone open but broken) or,
> > if they support IAX like FWD does, with an IAX client. Iaxcomm is
> > open, runs on Linux and Windows. It may even support direct PC to PC
> > calls, just ask on their list whether it does and how an IAX URI
> > should look like for such a call. And about OS X while you're at it.
> > IAX btw is a good protocol as it sends all data, signal and media,
> > through a single UDP stream, so it's the easiest to set up in
> > NATed/firewalled environments.
>
> According to skype.com, they do have a Linux client - and even .debs of
> it. I'll be looking into them further.
>
> Do you have any urls for 0$ tarif VoIP providers? (I'm sure I could
> google them, but that doesn't tell me what kind of experience Debian
> users have had with them, using which software, etc.)
>
> > If you need conferencing and stuff, either use teamspeak (closed
> > source), or asterisk (huge but fun).
>
> Thanks!
> Jacob
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