Hi Marc, *, On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 4:25 PM, Marc Paré <[email protected]> wrote: > > BTW ... while we are at this type of topic, in trying out OpenMeetings Craig > O. and I found that the microphone setting is set so that you practically > have to place the microphone next to your lips for any adequate use.
Yes, just played with it, and I must say I don't like openmeetings at all... While the feature to show a whilteboard/slides and draw on them is nice, its not really required for regular conferences with LO (or there are alterantives). Same for video, nice for some applications for sure, but not needed for phone-conferences. I have similar problems with microphone-level, and the flash based UI just is a catastrophy. You can easily end up with an unusable window because you cannot move the windows, moving within the presentation slides is also broken easily. It does too much. mumble on the other hand has very good audio configuration tools, although depending on your OS' audio settings it might not be straightforward to disable direct microphone-to-speaker setting that causes echo, but the audio-setup-wizard makes it easy to get a basic setting where all users end up with a similar "loudness" which makes understanding each other much easier than with the current teleconferencing systems (some people only barely audible, while others are really loud). And that you have a visual indication of who is speaking also really helps. It also has a chat/messaging functionality to pass around URLs or other messages, and is much easier to use (as it does a lot less than OpenMeetings) > I > couldn't find a setting where the sensitivity of the microphone could be > adjusted. It may be that OpenMeetings way of dealing with this is to have > the user work at the computer-hardware level rather than through its own > settings. Yes, and I couldn't even allow access to the microphone while my mic-input was muted/disabled. Even after activating it, I could not dismiss the dialog. I had to close and start over. (and the disappointment did start right from the very beginning, when openmeetings sent the chosen password in cleartext along with the activation mail) > On the other hand, Mumble's setting for the microphone is quite fine. Yes, and also simultaneous speaking works rather well (well, tested with only two other people, so not sure how it will scale :-)) But with the notifications/visual indicators it's easier to spot when someone is about to say something, so you can back off and wait with your own comment. > It > works so well, that I can set my microphone on top of my monitor and it is > still loud enough for people to hear. We have had some issues with echo, but > I think this has more to do with "fine tuning" the Mumble client and with > speakers that anything else. Yes, echo cancellation works really well for me, with external speakers right next to the monitor with built-in microphone. The important part about it is that you must not route the microphone directly to your speakers, but only let mumble create the audio output. > We still need to test out OpenMeetings with perhaps 4-5 people all on at the > same time. There is also a little more to learn with OpenMeetings than with > Mumble. I'm now a fan of mumble :-) and I have to say I dislike OpenMeetings UI. - But of course different tools for different needs, I can imagine running general meetings with mumble, and have groups use openmeetings if they choose to do so. ciao Christian -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/website/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
