On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 04:40:58PM -0400, Jon wrote: > Gizmo is mono and SKype is stereo. > > I soke with Michael Robertson not too long ago about Gizmo. There are > significant differences between how Gizmo and Skype conduct business. Most
Sykpe is part of the corporate machine. Personally I am happer with open solutions. > notably, Skype's mixing and sync occurs on the call participants computers > whereas Gizmos is done 'in house'. Therefore, the assertion that Skype is I would have thought that 'mixing' only applies to a conferencing call, where you have more than a point to point communication. > better or worse than anything else is really based on very subjective VoIP quality is so hard to qualify - is it the talker, mic, soundcard, codec, network, codec, soundcard, speakers, or listener???? Can you do Skype->Sykpe on a private network (ie. without access to the internet). Maybe some quantative testing should be done. > experiences. I can call the Netherlands with Skype and have an excellent > quality conversation, yet call my buddy down the street on the POTS system > and barely be able to hear him. Many, many variables with Skype. > > Gizmo, on the other hand, has predictable quality. I know I can use a Gizmo > call at the end of it. I never know with Skype until I get down to the > business of editing it. There are also a couple of applications to record the RTP streams (which most VoIP protocols use), VOMIT to name but one.... Personally I use a hard SIP phone and Ekiga as a softphone. Simon. _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
