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  • J Jan R Hansen

    Hello everybody, I need an application that will provide voice communication over my LAN. Some of my neighbours (and myself, of course.. ) are playing PC games and would like to talk together while playing. I have tried different apps (Roger Wilco, Buddyphone, TeamSound) and all *sort of* work. They are all aimed for internet use, so sound quality is pretty bad - and they all have 1 second or more delay. THAT bugs me. The MSN messenger is able to let two persons talk in good quality with almost no delay - but only two persons at the time. So, does a program exist that will give us good quality and broadcast on several channels at the same time ? I mean, 4 players hook up to the server on "channel 1" and every input from any person is broadcasted to the other 3 persons. The server would then need to support more than one channel in order for two teams to fight against each other. - or do I need to write the bastard myself :) ? I know that we will have to send the sound-streams via UDP - but need some good examples on how to do this from VB or VC++. Or .NET if it must be... Any help/thoughts/ideas... ? /Jan

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    Michael Dunn
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    The best way to talk is to get speaker phones (or headsets) and do conference calls with the players on the same team. :) --Mike-- Just released - RightClick-Encrypt v1.4 - Adds fast & easy file encryption to Explorer My really out-of-date homepage Sonork-100.19012 Acid_Helm

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    • J Jan R Hansen

      Hello everybody, I need an application that will provide voice communication over my LAN. Some of my neighbours (and myself, of course.. ) are playing PC games and would like to talk together while playing. I have tried different apps (Roger Wilco, Buddyphone, TeamSound) and all *sort of* work. They are all aimed for internet use, so sound quality is pretty bad - and they all have 1 second or more delay. THAT bugs me. The MSN messenger is able to let two persons talk in good quality with almost no delay - but only two persons at the time. So, does a program exist that will give us good quality and broadcast on several channels at the same time ? I mean, 4 players hook up to the server on "channel 1" and every input from any person is broadcasted to the other 3 persons. The server would then need to support more than one channel in order for two teams to fight against each other. - or do I need to write the bastard myself :) ? I know that we will have to send the sound-streams via UDP - but need some good examples on how to do this from VB or VC++. Or .NET if it must be... Any help/thoughts/ideas... ? /Jan

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      Domenic Denicola
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      I think MS GameVoice would work well for your needs. It uses MSN Messenger, so I would assume it would be of that quality. I'm happy with mine; but nobody else ever uses it so it's really just a $50 headset :(

      -Domenic Denicola- [CPUA 0x1337] MadHamster Creations "I was born human. But this was an accident of fate - a condition merely of time and place. I believe it's something we have the power to change..."

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      • M Michael Dunn

        The best way to talk is to get speaker phones (or headsets) and do conference calls with the players on the same team. :) --Mike-- Just released - RightClick-Encrypt v1.4 - Adds fast & easy file encryption to Explorer My really out-of-date homepage Sonork-100.19012 Acid_Helm

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        Jan R Hansen
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        Great idea.... did I forget to mention the concept of not paying for the conversation ;) But thanks anyway. I know that some of the yanks don't pay for local area calls, so they might as well do that. Or what ? /Jan

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        • D Domenic Denicola

          I think MS GameVoice would work well for your needs. It uses MSN Messenger, so I would assume it would be of that quality. I'm happy with mine; but nobody else ever uses it so it's really just a $50 headset :(

          -Domenic Denicola- [CPUA 0x1337] MadHamster Creations "I was born human. But this was an accident of fate - a condition merely of time and place. I believe it's something we have the power to change..."

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          Peter Liddle
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          I think you can download software from microsoft to do what you want to do. All i know is ive done exactly what you want to do before at LAN parties where we where playing team games i thing we used MS GameVoice or somehting like that. I also rember using another piece of software called voicecommander but i think this was more for ordering commands great for UT and stuff where you say the weopon and it pops up.

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          • J Jan R Hansen

            Hello everybody, I need an application that will provide voice communication over my LAN. Some of my neighbours (and myself, of course.. ) are playing PC games and would like to talk together while playing. I have tried different apps (Roger Wilco, Buddyphone, TeamSound) and all *sort of* work. They are all aimed for internet use, so sound quality is pretty bad - and they all have 1 second or more delay. THAT bugs me. The MSN messenger is able to let two persons talk in good quality with almost no delay - but only two persons at the time. So, does a program exist that will give us good quality and broadcast on several channels at the same time ? I mean, 4 players hook up to the server on "channel 1" and every input from any person is broadcasted to the other 3 persons. The server would then need to support more than one channel in order for two teams to fight against each other. - or do I need to write the bastard myself :) ? I know that we will have to send the sound-streams via UDP - but need some good examples on how to do this from VB or VC++. Or .NET if it must be... Any help/thoughts/ideas... ? /Jan

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            Uwe Keim
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            Maybe these help you: http://www.google.de/search?&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=voice+over+ip+source+code[^] http://groups.google.de/groups?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=voice+over+ip+source+code&sa=N&tab=wg[^] -- Scanned MSDN Mag ad with YOUR name: www.magerquark.de/misc/CodeProject.html See me: www.magerquark.de

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            • J Jan R Hansen

              Hello everybody, I need an application that will provide voice communication over my LAN. Some of my neighbours (and myself, of course.. ) are playing PC games and would like to talk together while playing. I have tried different apps (Roger Wilco, Buddyphone, TeamSound) and all *sort of* work. They are all aimed for internet use, so sound quality is pretty bad - and they all have 1 second or more delay. THAT bugs me. The MSN messenger is able to let two persons talk in good quality with almost no delay - but only two persons at the time. So, does a program exist that will give us good quality and broadcast on several channels at the same time ? I mean, 4 players hook up to the server on "channel 1" and every input from any person is broadcasted to the other 3 persons. The server would then need to support more than one channel in order for two teams to fight against each other. - or do I need to write the bastard myself :) ? I know that we will have to send the sound-streams via UDP - but need some good examples on how to do this from VB or VC++. Or .NET if it must be... Any help/thoughts/ideas... ? /Jan

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              HI Jan I was going to do this with my nBASS[^] library, till I found out that WMA has about a 21 sec delay. :(( I can tell u though my findings/suggestions. - To minimise delay, u will need some kind of realtime codec that supports streaming. - Because you are going to use it on a LAN, speed is not really a factor, so a TCP connection should be ok, unless u have many users. Cheers :) Give them a chance! Do it for the kittens, dear God, the kittens!

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              • P Peter Liddle

                I think you can download software from microsoft to do what you want to do. All i know is ive done exactly what you want to do before at LAN parties where we where playing team games i thing we used MS GameVoice or somehting like that. I also rember using another piece of software called voicecommander but i think this was more for ordering commands great for UT and stuff where you say the weopon and it pops up.

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                Domenic Denicola
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                I think you misunderstood me. I have that software; it's just that there's nobody to chat with.

                -Domenic Denicola- [CPUA 0x1337] MadHamster Creations "I was born human. But this was an accident of fate - a condition merely of time and place. I believe it's something we have the power to change..."

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                • J Jan R Hansen

                  Hello everybody, I need an application that will provide voice communication over my LAN. Some of my neighbours (and myself, of course.. ) are playing PC games and would like to talk together while playing. I have tried different apps (Roger Wilco, Buddyphone, TeamSound) and all *sort of* work. They are all aimed for internet use, so sound quality is pretty bad - and they all have 1 second or more delay. THAT bugs me. The MSN messenger is able to let two persons talk in good quality with almost no delay - but only two persons at the time. So, does a program exist that will give us good quality and broadcast on several channels at the same time ? I mean, 4 players hook up to the server on "channel 1" and every input from any person is broadcasted to the other 3 persons. The server would then need to support more than one channel in order for two teams to fight against each other. - or do I need to write the bastard myself :) ? I know that we will have to send the sound-streams via UDP - but need some good examples on how to do this from VB or VC++. Or .NET if it must be... Any help/thoughts/ideas... ? /Jan

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                  leppie
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                  This looks good :) http://www.openh323.org/[^] Give them a chance! Do it for the kittens, dear God, the kittens!

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                    This looks good :) http://www.openh323.org/[^] Give them a chance! Do it for the kittens, dear God, the kittens!

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                    Jan R Hansen
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                    It sure does !!! Currently I'm installing gamevoice on 2 clients and gamevoice server on my win2k server. However, the MS app naturally needs directx 8, so the pc's were up to a Win SP3 and windows update and directx 8 install. That took a while (I'm not quite done yet - but very soon..) - and its 23:52 at my watch, so I'm just going to bed now. Further suggestions are most welcome. I'll se if I can take the OpenH323 code for a testdrive tomorrow after work. And report my findings of course ;) Well, have a nice evening over there. /jan

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                    • D Domenic Denicola

                      I think you misunderstood me. I have that software; it's just that there's nobody to chat with.

                      -Domenic Denicola- [CPUA 0x1337] MadHamster Creations "I was born human. But this was an accident of fate - a condition merely of time and place. I believe it's something we have the power to change..."

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                      David Wulff
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                      So everytime you log on to MSN Messenger all your contacts mysteriously go out to lunch or start having network problems too? ;P

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