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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 wlesieutre »

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

Mumble is great when you don't want a persistent chat.

I've been invited to like a million different discord groups from friend groups that overlap in various ways, and they always seem to be full of a bunch of people I don't know reposting memes off of reddit in the chat channels.

All I wanted was a voice chat with the 5 people who I know and am hopping into Overwatch with. Mumble does that job better, and guzzles less of my RAM to do it.

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

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Post by newaccoutnas »

denimnerd42 wrote: post #5
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

It's unfortunate because Mumble is great, secure free software with interesting features. I used to be a linux distro package manager for Mumble. Once my friends discovered discord no one wanted to join my mumble anymore. I think the biggest problem was setting the damn thing up on the client side. Murmur server is free though. It even runs great off of a home internet connection if you have the technical know-how to…

We used it for talkback in a video capture project I was doing at a broadcaster (before they built that functionality in natively) worked a treat.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

emteycz wrote: post #23
Wowfunhappy wrote: post #7

I really appreciate Mumble's dedication to lowering latency. Latency is a silent killer of conversation quality. When it's relatively small, you don't notice it's there, but it makes conversations more stilted because everyone's responses are just a bit less immediate. You chalk it up to the person or situation, rather than the software. I'm not seeing anyone make significant attempts to solve or reduce this problem.…

> To my ears, 2010-era Skype had lower latency than any of the modern VOIP systems in use today (including Skype). Yeah! What happened?

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

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Post by greymeister »

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 refuse to use Discord because I don't know how or to whom they are going to sell my data yet. It's possible they go to a subscription model but I doubt it, it seems more likely they'll be acquired by one of the big data brokers at some point.

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

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Post by solarkraft »

mrguyorama wrote: post #27
emteycz wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> To my ears, 2010-era Skype had lower latency than any of the modern VOIP systems in use today (including Skype). Yeah! What happened?

Skype went from point to point systems to routing through a server backend.

Any idea why? Sounds stupid, considering latency losses and increased server costs.

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

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Post by ziddoap »

Notorious_BLT wrote: post #29

I've managed to keep a group of friends using Mumble instead of Discord, and I think we've all benefited from it. My privacy-focused friend appreciates the encryption and everyone else appreciates the ability to locally mute people if they walk away with their headset hot-mic'ed. We use discord for text communication, but when people are online for games or just to chat, we use Mumble.

I mean, you can locally mute people in Discord too so I'm not quite sure why that is in the "pro" side for Mumble.

However, I'll agree that Mumble is great if all your looking for is somewhat privacy-forward low-latency voice chat with minimal bloat.

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

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Post by fredley »

solarkraft wrote: post #35
mrguyorama wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Skype went from point to point systems to routing through a server backend.

Any idea why? Sounds stupid, considering latency losses and increased server costs.

So that the data can be captured, analysed, etc.

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

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Post by ArchReaper »

solarkraft wrote: post #35
mrguyorama wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Skype went from point to point systems to routing through a server backend.

Any idea why? Sounds stupid, considering latency losses and increased server costs.

So the NSA could listen in.

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

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Post by edf13 »

solarkraft wrote: post #35
mrguyorama wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Skype went from point to point systems to routing through a server backend.

Any idea why? Sounds stupid, considering latency losses and increased server costs.

Compliance

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

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Post by Wowfunhappy »

solarkraft wrote: post #35
mrguyorama wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Skype went from point to point systems to routing through a server backend.

Any idea why? Sounds stupid, considering latency losses and increased server costs.

Well, it happened around the same time Microsoft bought the company. That's not an answer per se, but probably had something to do with it.

In fairness, Skype seems to be a lot more "stable" now than it once was. I recall having to frequently restart calls due to the audio suddenly crapping out in a variety of odd ways. That seems to happen much less often now. Can't say for sure if the two are related, but it would make sense.

But, I'd take a VOIP system with decreased latency over stability any day. Particularly since the problems could almost always be fixed by restarting the call.

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