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[-] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 10 points 1 month ago

Ventrilo looks someone's bad first open source project, but it's proprietary. The audio quality must be orgasmic for people to use it.

[-] Diva@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 month ago

it's what people used before things like discord, that and teamspeak

[-] Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 1 month ago

It was XFire -> TS -> Vent -> Skype -> Discord for me.

[-] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 8 points 1 month ago

So like XMPP, SIP, Mumble, or Matrix without the chat part.

[-] Photuris@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 month ago

What happened to IRC? It worked great.

[-] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 12 points 1 month ago

Nothing. Like, absolutely nothing. It didn't keep up with the times. I spent am untold amount of time on IRC, but the fact that you have to be online to have a chance to read messages just doesn't jive with most people's schedules anymore.

[-] XTL@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Spam and other attacks did happen. And it doesn't really handle being mobile or disconnected without some sort of proxy. Among other things.

It's still there, but withered and infested. Kind of like Usenet and real email.

[-] x00z@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Audio quality

  • Teamspeak3, Discord and Mumble all use Opus Voice
  • Teamspeak2 and Ventrilo used Speex and eventually CELT. CELT is decent but Opus is better.

WIth current hardware and cheap hosting, setting Opus Voice to max quality is best.

this post was submitted on 17 Apr 2025
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