On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 07:59:05PM +0100, Mario Lang wrote: > Eric Dantan Rzewnicki <rzewnickie@xxxxxxx> writes: > > > On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 06:34:22PM +0000, Steve Harris wrote: > >> On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 05:28:25 +1100, Shayne O'Connor wrote: > >> > actually, the quality of music broadcast through skype (setting the > >> > "mix" channel of a sblive to be captured) seems to be just as good as if > >> > you were hearing it locally ... > >> Hmm.. cool :) I had no idea what codec they were using, but as it sounds > >> so good for voice, I assumed it was voice optimised (like ogg speex). > >> According to the website it uses up to 128 kbps if you have the bandwidth. > >> > >> For those people who are shapening thier free-software knives :) you could > >> also use gnome-meeting, which lets you pick appropriate codecs, and is > >> free as in speech. > > > > Skype scares me in the same way that mp3 should have scared me before I > > knew fraunhofer was not my friend. > > And its inaccessible on Linux. Another lock-out thing. No its not, I use skype on linux. The open SIP stuff is probably better though, and thier are free providers now, I'm just looking at http://www.stanaphone.com/, which flogs hardware, but lets you use any compliant SIP implementation IIUC. Not tried it, but a collegue uses it. - Steve
