Re: gnommeeting and voice over IP again!
From: P Gentry (rdgentry1_at_cablelynx.com)
Date: 12/21/03
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Date: 20 Dec 2003 17:15:22 -0800
nosp@xades.com wrote in message news:<pan.2003.12.20.09.05.01.566913@xades.com>...
> On Sat, 20 Dec 2003 08:53:03 +0000, Sargon wrote:
>
> > P Gentry wrote:
> > <snip>
> >> Software based processing "should" be acceptable (depending on your
> >> tolerance) with newer cpu's and headsets, but I fear full-duplex mode
> >> may still need hardware support of some kind.
> >>
> >> Hope someone posts with better news,
> >> regards
> >> prg
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> > Thanks. I was afraid of that.
>
> Don't despair -- there is a difference between hardware support for
> full-duplex sound mode and hardware support for easing the audio
> de/encoding load off the main cpu.
>
> Check documentation on your sound chip (google) and see if it supports
> full-duplex audio. If it's fairly modern there's a good chance. Then you
> will probably not need the additional card you were told to purchase.
>
> There is also a good chance your sound chip _won't_ do the de/encoding and
> your cpu will have to handle this. That shouldn't be a problem unless
> your cpu/mem/mobo were not powerful enough to run a recent distro without
> extra work from you.
Yeh, for home use I'm not _that_ interested since this is an old Pll
350 w/ 256MB and a sound card that predates my bald spot.
Mostly trying to use Net/Gnome Meeting in a school setting with
machines not much (any?) more juiced than this one. It can be done,
but the delays introduced with the cpu processing were a little hard
to get used to. The other thing with the full-duplex decoders is that
they usually also provide echo/feedback control (some more - some
less) which is nice in a larger room with 25-30 kids.
I encourage any and all who are interested to try out the video
conferencing. If you can tolerate the anomilies it's really nice.
Glad to hear that newer machines are more up to the task.
Thanks for the update,
prg
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