Steve Harris <S.W.Harris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > 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. I should have been more clear, I ment, the version of Skype for Linux is not accessible in the sense of computer access for the blind. And since its closed-source, we can not fix this ourselves. -- CYa, Mario
