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[-] Voice Chat

Discussion in 'Feature Requests' started by gandolfifeesh, Nov 23, 2011.

  1. gandolfifeesh

    gandolfifeesh New Member

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    I suggest that you look into a proposition with a company with audio and/or video chat capabilities.
    Between running d20 Pro and something like Google+ my group has found feedback and echoing on the voice chat end.

    Perhaps if you integrated them it would somewhat limit the bandwith required to flawlessly stream the two?
    We have found audio chat increases the enjoyment of the d20 pro experience tenfold.
     
    #1 gandolfifeesh, Nov 23, 2011
  2. ChrisRevocateur

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    Re: Voice Chat

    My group has found that Ventrilo with push to talk enabled works pretty well.

    But I agree, it would be great if they could have an integrated voice chat.
     
    #2 ChrisRevocateur, Nov 23, 2011
  3. edwardcd

    edwardcd Administrator
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    Re: Voice Chat

    To minimize feedback/echoing it's always best for everyone to have a headset with microphone. Push-to-Talk is also another good solution, or using the "mute" feature if the voice program does not have Push-to-Talk.

    My group has used Ventrilo, TeamSpeak3, and Skype in our online games. The sound quality on each are very similar. When someone did not have a headset there was more feedback and I was able to hear myself talk with a delay (which is good for singing row-row-row your boat, not so good when you are trying to give a description of a room). We've eventually settled for Skype since it's the easiest to use for all my players. Though I really liked the features on the other programs.

    It would be nice to have an integrated voice chat with d20Pro. Though, any voice integration would most likely be an integration of an existing program, meaning there wouldn't be a reduction in the bandwidth. And, I'm uncertain if there is an open source Java based VOIP solution d20Pro can integrate into the existing software. Which would mean re-building the VOIP wheel, which I know the d20Pro development team does not want to do - it's outside the core product, and would cost a significant amount of money for the programming hours to develop it. Does anyone know an open source Java VOIP solution that works well?
     
    #3 edwardcd, Nov 23, 2011
  4. Mandos

    Mandos New Member

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    Re: Voice Chat

    I don't see the added benefit--chatting isn't a core aspect to gaming. You guys need to spend your effort on gaming-centric aspects of the software--let Skype (or whoever), who LIVE to make voice chatting software better, do their thing.
     
    #4 Mandos, Jan 8, 2012
  5. edwardcd

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    Re: Voice Chat

    Exactly.
     
    #5 edwardcd, Jan 8, 2012
  6. scienceboyroy

    scienceboyroy New Member

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    Re: Voice Chat

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jitsi
     
    #6 scienceboyroy, Jan 9, 2012
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