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Mumble – Open source, low latency, high quality voice chat software

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Re: Mumble – Open source, low latency, high quality voice chat software

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Post by AWildC182 »

dharmab wrote: post #3

Discord has pretty much completely eaten Mumble's market. Free servers and a way better chat system ate Mumble's use case. TeamSpeak is still used by milsim/flightsim communities because it support plugins which integrate the in-sim radios with the VoIP system. EDIT: Got Vent and TS mixed up

I haven't seen vent in half a decade at least. The milsimers mostly seem to use Arma and Squad, the former basing most it's mods/plugins on TS. Not sure what Squad players use though. The flightsim community is mostly moving over to DCS which has its own self contained mod for VOIP [1] but those staying on FSX/P3D seem to use a plethora of other weird applications with VATSIM.

[1] https://github.com/ciribob/DCS-SimpleRadioStandalone/release...

Re: Mumble – Open source, low latency, high quality voice chat software

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Post by nightski »

snvzz wrote: post #9

I'd add "difficult to use" to that list. Difficult even for an engineer to use. Terrible. It works great once you figure it out, but it could use a better user and admin experience.

Interesting, used to be in a clan of over 100 people that used it no problem, very few of which were engineers. Not sure what particular functionality held you up?

Re: Mumble – Open source, low latency, high quality voice chat software

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Post by toastercat »

snvzz wrote: post #9

I'd add "difficult to use" to that list. Difficult even for an engineer to use. Terrible. It works great once you figure it out, but it could use a better user and admin experience.

I've heard this before, but between myself and nine of my friends who regular a Mumble server, none of us ever had much difficulty using it. I've always thought it was simple and relatively intuitive. What about it do you find difficult as a user?

Re: Mumble – Open source, low latency, high quality voice chat software

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Post by LinuxBender »

privong wrote: post #6
ziddoap wrote: post #2

Mumble... What a blast from the past. Used to use this for gaming alongside Vent. If I'm not mistaken, the last update was in like 2017? Is it even in development any more?

> If I'm not mistaken, the last update was in like 2017? Is it even in development any more? A 1.3.0-rc1 was tagged 9 days ago (17 March 2019): https://github.com/mumble-voip/mumble/releases/tag/1.3.0-rc1 But it does look like the previous stable release was in January 2017.

They update the the 1.3.x branch every couple months. It is quite stable. My semi-public server has been running on 1.3.x latest without issue.

Re: Mumble – Open source, low latency, high quality voice chat software

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Post by LinuxBender »

Arie wrote: post #8

For over 10 years I've been running a semi-public Mumble server. It's pretty much zero effort, low CPU and low bandwidth usage. These days mainly just as a backup for when Discord lags, which over the past few weeks has been often. It's so nice to have a very good, open source, self-hosted, encrypted communications app as an alternative to yet another Electron app.

That also makes the server requirements very simple. I have a tiny VM that can handle a lot of users.

[edit] removed e2e, the clients are not using pfs yet.

Re: Mumble – Open source, low latency, high quality voice chat software

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toastercat wrote: post #13
snvzz wrote: post #9

I'd add "difficult to use" to that list. Difficult even for an engineer to use. Terrible. It works great once you figure it out, but it could use a better user and admin experience.

I've heard this before, but between myself and nine of my friends who regular a Mumble server, none of us ever had much difficulty using it. I've always thought it was simple and relatively intuitive. What about it do you find difficult as a user?

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Post by alyandon »

toastercat wrote: post #13
snvzz wrote: post #9

I'd add "difficult to use" to that list. Difficult even for an engineer to use. Terrible. It works great once you figure it out, but it could use a better user and admin experience.

I've heard this before, but between myself and nine of my friends who regular a Mumble server, none of us ever had much difficulty using it. I've always thought it was simple and relatively intuitive. What about it do you find difficult as a user?

From what I vaguely recall experimenting with Mumble years ago - my biggest gripe was the lack of support for anything other certificate based user authentication which complicates the common case of "User X would like to be able to access Mumble from multiple machines".
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