[linux-audio-user]Skype and internet jamming

Mario Lang mlang at delysid.org
Sat Mar 5 09:31:09 EST 2005


Steve Harris <S.W.Harris at ecs.soton.ac.uk> writes:

> On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 07:59:05PM +0100, Mario Lang wrote:
>> 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.
>
> No its not, I use skype on linux.

I should have been more clear, I ment, the version of Skype for Linux
is not accessible in the sense of computer access for the blind.
And since its closed-source, we can not fix this ourselves.

-- 
CYa,
  Mario



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