On 05/05/14 02:08, John Hebert wrote:
> Alexander,

> Let's put your passion to work.
eek! hehe :)

> Schedule some tests with the open source software solutions you mentioned
> and invite others to join you during those tests.

I'm not free for 22hours~ (sleeping and something else) but I'm free for
wed,thus and parts of friday.

Who's prepared to try these solutions with me?

Voice:
Mumble http://mumble.sourceforge.net/

Video Chat:
HTML5, In the Web Brower:

For html5 audio/video chat all you need is the current version of
Firefox,chromium,or proprietary opera. forget bad apple and m$ they hate
format freedom and so there web browsers are useless.

https://vmux.cc/
http://openvri.com/
https://jitsi.org/Projects/JitsiMeet (chromium or proprietary opera,
firefox support pending)


> If one of these solutions
> works well and meets the minimum requirements

> (1. many chat participants,
define many?

TOALL: What's your internet connection bandwidth (down & up speeds)?
http://speedof.me/ html5=nice interface or http://testmy.net/

> 2. good voice quality,
yep, thanks to opus (not forgeting the separate audio filters) you will
have the best possible voice quality. http://www.opus-codec.org/

>3. install from packages, not source),
goes without saying

> present your
> test results to the mailing list.

sigh, yet another project to juggle, but ok I guess it doesn't need to
have much text, a list with a paragraph I guess will do.

> Thanks for your help,
> John
well, thanks for the interest.

> On Sat, May 3, 2014 at 3:59 PM, Alexander .S.T. Ross <
> maillist_unsystem@???> wrote:
>
> I was under the impression there are too many of you for video chat but
> here's the alternatives:
>
> * HTML5 Video Chat:
> For html5 audio/video chat all you need is the current version of
> Firefox,chromium,or proprietary opera. forget bad apple and m$ they hate
> format freedom and so there web browsers are useless.
>
> https://vmux.cc/
> http://openvri.com/
> https://jitsi.org/Projects/JitsiMeet (chromium or proprietary opera,
> firefox support pending)
>
> you can try them out with me if you'd like. pop me a email, I'm often
> around and available, late hours included ie 2am
>
>
> I get that your priority is convenience and having a chat by whatever
> means but what about being hypocritical?
>
> Personally I get feed up of projects that say this and work towards
> <goal> but then are bloody hypocrites and happy using something against
> what they stand for, work towards,etc. It also means people you don't
> know or do know are excluded and give up because the attitude they see
> or experience makes it nightmare/impossible, depressing, unhopefull - a
> dead end. It's even more tragic because often there is alternatives that
> do the job/get the job done.
>
>
> I guess I could have written this differently but it will have to do for
> now.