Re: [GnomeMeeting-list] Website updated

[Johnny Strom <jonny strom netikka fi>]

Craig Southeren wrote:
> There are many reports like this (http://blogs.pcworld.com/staffblog/archives/000132.html)
> that seem to demonstrate that Skype has much the same problems with
> firewalls causing one-way audio as networks based on SIP or H.323.
>
> I've also heard several reports that audio in Skype is much clearer than
> a normal phone call, which seems to point to them using a "wide-band"
> codec that operates at a sample rate higher than 8khz. That would be
> simple enough to do in either H.323 or SIP using a non-standard codec -
> in fact I've thought about doing it several times but never had the time.

This would be a goode idea to use 16 or 22Khhz sampling rate when
quite a lot of ppl are on ADSL lines this days. But anyway the quility 
of the sound in GM is better then GSM that is what I compare to.

Cheers Johnny



> I'd be interested in seeing evidence that they are using iLBC
>
>    Craig
>
> On Thu, 09 Sep 2004 23:25:38 +0200
> Damien Sandras <dsandras seconix com> wrote:
>
>
> > We are again coding hard on the future 1.2 release of GnomeMeeting.
> > There will be more internal changes than user-visible changes, but we
> > are paving the way for SIP.
> >        
> > People are often asking me what I think of Skype. What I think is pretty
> > clear... 
> >        
> > The main problem is not that the program is not Open Source, the problem
> > is that Skype is locking users into a proprietary protocol. Would you
> > imagine the Internet with a proprietary equivalent to the HTTP protocol
> > that only a given client could browse? That's what happens with Skype.
> > Skype also has a great marketing force, some people even think that
> > Skype has a superior audio quality. How could Skype have a superior
> > quality when it is using the same codec (iLBC) than software like
> > GnomeMeeting while introducing more latency by making calls go through a
> > 3rd party? The only real advantage of Skype is that it is easily going
> > through any type of NAT, using a 3rd user to proxy the call. But the day
> > when the Linux kernel NAT will natively support H.323 or SIP, Skype will
> > have lost its only advantage... Skype is hype...
>
>
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