[linux-audio-user]Skype and internet jamming

[Mario Lang]

Eric Dantan Rzewnicki <rzewnickie at rfa.org> writes:

> On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 06:34:22PM +0000, Steve Harris wrote:
>> On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 05:28:25 +1100, Shayne O'Connor wrote:
>> > actually, the quality of music broadcast through skype (setting the
>> > "mix" channel of a sblive to be captured) seems to be just as good as if
>> > you were hearing it locally ...
>> Hmm.. cool :) I had no idea what codec they were using, but as it sounds
>> so good for voice, I assumed it was voice optimised (like ogg speex).
>> According to the website it uses up to 128 kbps if you have the bandwidth.
>> 
>> For those people who are shapening thier free-software knives :) you could
>> also use gnome-meeting, which lets you pick appropriate codecs, and is
>> free as in speech.
>
> Skype scares me in the same way that mp3 should have scared me before I
> knew fraunhofer was not my friend.

And its inaccessible on Linux.  Another lock-out thing.

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CYa,
  Mario