Also, to negate the "one mic to pass around" issue, we could simply have multiple mumble clients running on one computer all connected to the server, but each connected to a different sound card with a different push-to-talk button.
There is no reason that there can't be 4 clients connected in the same room with different mic's that all speak into the same channel. For that matter, all 4 mic's could be fed into the same sound card as long as there aren't other people talking at the same time near the other microphones. For example, I have an MXL770 cardioid microphoneand a PEAVEY 4 port USB mixing board that has 6 channel input. (2 mono channels and 2 stereo channels). The one microphone picks up sound very clearly from as far as 25 feet; though a cardioid is somewhat directional. An omni would be better for a "group" of people while a cardioid is better for a group of speakers all in the same relative position to the microphone (in front of it...). On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 10:30 AM, Mark Campbell <[email protected]> wrote: > Only problem with Vent is that it's generally Windows only :) > > > On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 11:28 AM, chris kluka <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Mumble is free and open source. You can have a channel default muted and >> only admins can un-mute speakers. >> >> Murmur is the server; Mumble is the client. >> >> It can be setup almost the same as ventrilo, but it is far superior >> to ventrilo. In particular, it has far superior noise >> cancellation algorithms and uses better voice codecs. >> >> I've run Mumuble servers before; in fact, I own mumblehosting.biz(though >> I've let everything expire and die). >> >> The main difference between mumble and ventrillo is that mumble is free. >> You can only run an 8-client instance of the vent server for free; If you >> want a larger instance, you have to pay for it. Additionally, the company >> that makes ventrilo hates small companies and sets a minimum per month >> price at 1000 seats, so basically only companies that resell ventrilo >> services can run their own ventrilo server. >> >> >> If we require a mumble server, I can put one up on a 100x100 pipe and >> give whoever needs it admin access. just let me know. >> >> -- Chris >> >> >> On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 10:19 AM, Roswyne <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> I currently have a small Ventrilo (50 person) server. IIRC, you can set >>> people up as "dominant", so if they and someone else talk at the same time, >>> their voice will be the one heard. I assume TeamSpeak has similar >>> capabilities. >>> On Jan 30, 2013 10:12 AM, "Jim MacKenzie" <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> Hmm, the team speak idea is kind of interesting. It might make it so >>>> people who cant be at some of the bigger presentations can remote in, but >>>> still be able to answer questions. >>>> There is an option for a marked speaker to make everyone else go quite >>>> when they speak. >>>> And as a non-profit we qualify for the 512 user licence. >>>> >>>> >>>> The only thing with the 1 mic idea is we would have to get presenters >>>> to say the question before they answer it, and not just start answering it. >>>> Otherwise it may not make sense. Ive >>>> seen presenters do this, but we not always have professional >>>> presenters. >>>> >>>> Video is doable, we can easily set up screen recording as well, so if >>>> someone is showing code or something on the projector we could have >>>> seperate video of just that. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Now, this is assuming that we have a presentation in the future from >>>> someone worth recording >>>> >>>> >>>> On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 9:21 AM, Ron <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>>> For talks, we'd only need a single mic, since there's only one person >>>>> (who matters). >>>>> >>>>> I think video is important, since I like to use the whiteboard when >>>>> teaching/lecturing. >>>>> >>>>> Ron >>>>> >>>>> On 2013-01-30 08:27, Ace Tunes wrote: >>>>> > We would need to make sure to get a room/area mic (maybe two >>>>> considering >>>>> > how big our meeting space is, our classrooms at UCN weren't much >>>>> bigger and >>>>> > we were running up to four area mics). As for the camera; it might >>>>> even be >>>>> > worth looking at the option of leaving it out, from my experience I >>>>> found >>>>> > that the classes without video stream went smoothest. When it comes >>>>> to >>>>> > recording it, software would be all we would need, but I don't know >>>>> of any >>>>> > free software that records sessions like that..... hmmm.... unless, >>>>> I just >>>>> > used teamspeak for the first time the other day, and I know it has >>>>> the >>>>> > option to record, but can we also, from the server side, force it so >>>>> that >>>>> > only one person's mic can be live? If so that might be an option, I >>>>> am sure >>>>> > we could host one on the sksp servers that would be turned on for >>>>> meetings >>>>> > only. With that we could use one piece of software to stream AND >>>>> record. We >>>>> > also could look at a Walkie-Talkie style application, though I don't >>>>> know >>>>> > of any free ones, that would allow every user to participate in the >>>>> > meeting; one that we used, that I am particularly fond of, is >>>>> Elluminate. >>>>> > Elluminate offers one way (editable) mic chatter, IRC style chat, >>>>> and if we >>>>> > really want video chat, as well as a whiteboard system. If we could >>>>> find a >>>>> > free version, or a REALLY cheap version, of that kind of thing it >>>>> might be >>>>> > worth it. >>>>> > >>>>> > Meako >>>>> > >>>>> > On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 12:44 AM, Ron <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> > >>>>> > > In your opinion, what would it take to record/stream talks? One >>>>> mic (we >>>>> > > can probably get for free), an Internet connection we have, >>>>> ustream is >>>>> > > free, I'm sure we could find an unused camera. 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