On Wednesday 14 June 2006 13:47, simon wrote: > Sykpe is part of the corporate machine. Personally I am happer with open > solutions.
Well, yes. Gizmo certainly supports the open protocols but the application itself isn't free. > I would have thought that 'mixing' only applies to a conferencing call, > where you have more than a point to point communication. I guess I'm thinking more of the sync. Significant work goes into regulating the cadence of the conversation as packets arrive willy-nilly. Where that sync takes place can change the nature of the conversation. Prior to finding skype-rec, I used to record my Skype interviews on my Windows box using Hot Recorder. Skype's system works in such a way that the conversation seemed normal to me while conducing it, but when I played it back it wasn't unusual to find out that the recording had us talking over each other and be totally out of sync. I verified that this wasn't just Hot Recorder - it was an artifact of how Skype syncs calls that were never meant to be recorded. Since the sync (or mixing) takes place on my machine and Hot Recorder would record the stream as it came in before processing, the real story was captured. Skype-rec records the in and out in two different files so it's not a problem if they're out of sync. Anyone ever wonder why Skype doesn't have a record button? It's likely the number one feature that users asks for. Answer - the client-side processing is a fatal flaw in Skype's architecture and presumably it's too much work to develop something that will record post-processing. This is all speculation on my part though. I'm not a VoIP expert at all. > Can you do Skype->Sykpe on a private network (ie. without access to the > internet). Maybe some quantative testing should be done. Doubt it. I believe you need the server to reconcile the username. Perhaps you can kludge together something IP to IP, though. Not sure. > Personally I use a hard SIP phone and Ekiga as a softphone. > Simon. Yes, there are many higher quality solutions out there. Clients like Skype and Gizmo are really the bottom on the barrel. Free is my price, though! -- http://www.jonwatson.ca http://www.linuxworldnet.com +1.403.875.6048 _______________________________________________ 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
