From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Fri Jul 28 17:01:39 2006 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Fri, 28 Jul 2006 17:01:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1G6cGc-0003oY-UW for lojban-list-real@lojban.org; Fri, 28 Jul 2006 17:01:19 -0700 Received: from dns.bl.com ([207.227.241.66]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1G6cGa-0003oP-HM for lojban-list@lojban.org; Fri, 28 Jul 2006 17:01:18 -0700 Received: from [192.168.1.121] (d26-209.rb.gh.centurytel.net [69.29.217.209]) by dns.bl.com (8.13.6/8.13.5/1.54) with ESMTP id k6T017W7016352 for ; Fri, 28 Jul 2006 19:01:12 -0500 (CDT) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: bentley@mail.bl.com Message-Id: In-Reply-To: References: <12d58c160607232010t3939fa5ehd33fdb58ff190670@mail.gmail.com> <12d58c160607241203i4f58c905wd127749663211677@mail.gmail.com> <1153816232.4934.11.camel@localhost> Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2006 17:01:02 -0700 To: lojban-list@lojban.org From: Michael Brian Bentley Subject: [lojban] Re: Meet with the Michigan Group online Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" X-Spam-Score: -2.5 (--) X-archive-position: 12292 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: bentley@crenelle.com Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list I've been using Ventrilo for World of Warcraft raids of up to 40 people. The audio sound quality is quite acceptable, depending upon whether all the participants have headsets. If you don't isolate the outbound audio from the inbound audio, as well as quieting microphones, you will get hideous echo effects and annoying background noise. The server should be connected to a phat net pipe tho the bandwidth requirement isn't very high. Also, Ventrilo has to be configured to use the speex (teamspeek) codec or else Mac users will be unable to participate. For small D&D sessions across a mere 4 time zones, as opposed to the global chatting we've been doing in World of Warcraft, We've been using iVisit, which also provides web quality video to up to 8 people. iVisit, however, has had some syncing and dropping issues. We are looking for a replacement. The most important missing link for group voip chats of a technical nature is the availability of a whiteboard tool. We're using a free and mediocre package now called gametable. To use something like gametable in freeform fashion for language work, I expect that you would need to use something like a Waccom digitizer pad with stylus. We're also interested in upgrading this component. Hi, Robin! -m To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to lojban-list-request@lojban.org with the subject unsubscribe, or go to http://www.lojban.org/lsg2/, or if you're really stuck, send mail to secretary@lojban.org for help.